Meeting Notes - Belews Creek Mtg Staff Notes-TVinson3.24.16

TVinson Notes from Belews Creek Public Meeting, 3/24/2016
Jimmy flythe
Duke Energy
Looking forward to comments from the public tonight. Plan to
deliver and close all coal ash basins in NC. Will dispose of ash in
the best method science says.
Vernon Sellers
What is DEQ going to do about the water now? What are the
people living there going to do now. Arsenic was a concern.
What is Duke going to do to provide water? He doesn't know
what Duke is going to do. Erin Brokavish fought for people out
west who do we have? As an investment in his life he wants to
know whats going to be done.
Nick Wood
ACT against
Thanked us for being here to listen to their comments.
Coal Ash
Concentrated poison has been building up longer than he has
been alive. Mentioned Dan River spill. Mentioned people
dying of cancer. Sees that there are half the periodic table in
this material. Blames the politicians, the governor and secret
meetings. Complained about 25M penalty being cut and asked
DENR staff to take care of them.
Tracey Edwards
Resident of
Live 3 minutes from entrance to Belews Creek. We are not
Stokes Co
slow or stupid. She's had a stroke but she is just fine.
Questioned why the groundwater drinking water was called
unsafe and then miraculously raised and now told that the
water is fine. This needs to be explained. Because of health
concerns this facility should be High Risk. Water is important to
us, we need it to survive.
Martha Hartly
Resident
Air and water, Air keeps us alive or not. Talked about
vollunteer time. Water, related easter egg decorating to
pollution of water. Please think about air and water.
Brenda
New resident
Her water has been grayish in color and sometimes brown. Ice
Lapeyrolerie
in ice maker is gray. Water was tested and it came back with
High levels in Mn, Cr, Mg. Besides water not being consumed,
trees seem to be dying on her property and on the neighbor
property which is less than 2 miles from her house. She also
thinks it is impacting wildlife. She wants to sell her property
but doesn't think anyone will buy. She thinks it should be high
Risk
Linda Hicks
Resident
Read a copy in hand. This facility should convert to clean
energy. Spoke out about Fracking and against it. Spoke for
Wind and Solar and upset with Governor for not pushing clean
energy. Stop using Coal and producing Coal Ash. Dollor the
right thing Duke and DEQ
Chandra Taylor
SELC
Supporting all people wanting Belews Creek as High Risk.
Addressed Title 6 requirements for DEQ to comply with and
addressed environmental justice based on discrimination
against people of color. The site should be at least
Intermediate risk due to hydraulic fracturing. Concerns about

stability of dams at this site. An earthquake would destroy the
dam causing harm so it should be upgraded to intermediate to
high risk
Myra Blake
SELC —
Thanks DEQ for WSRO staff. WSRO concluded BC to be High
Appalachian
Risk in 19 of 22 categories. Why are DEQ's political staff calling
Voices
this site Low risk. Duke as a criminal is telling DEQ how to
classify this risk. Duke enerngy studies show that
contamination is in the GW and contaminants are 10 times
higher than norman. Thalium has been found in Dan River
immediately down river of BC. All this is high risk found yby
DEQ scientists and this should be a high Risk Facility
Alfred Warren
Resident
Make Ash Basin at Belews Creek High Priority. B/c it has a
direct effect of people that have lived here all there lives. They
feel the results of the pollution. Called for everyone there to
call their senators and representatives.
Leslie Brewer
Resident/native
Thanks for coming to visit. Her grandfather sold property to
duke for BC facility. Friends and family have died from cancer.
She said her Dr. called and referenced BC and Cancer Lake.
Children had allergies, referenced ash fallout on cars and air
pollution impacted her children. The youngest that did not
grow up in shadow of this facility did not have any problems.
Please make this a High Priority facility.
Rebecca Bauer
Intern with App
This is a very simple problem. These residents ccan't go home
voices
and drink their water. Its not right, elected officials need to
help. The report mentions a lot of high risk statements but final
class is not.
Sally Hirsh
From W-S
Risk factor is huge. Are we considering the risk to children.
They need to be moved right away. Risk to air and water, her
ancestors had ash settle on their property. World pollution and
climate change. Severe storms, we're going to have
catastrophic failures, hurricanes, dam failures like the hog
lagoons,
Sarah Watts
From King
Risk, from App Voices and Duke Websites. BC has one coal ash
pond, called out size and impoundment capacity of dam. Said
it is years old, with Million tons od coal ash. Why was it
changed from High Hazard to Low Risk? Children are affected.
Mason Via
"Captain Obvious", lived in Danbury his whole life. Lives
upstream of the coal ash spill. Cares for the environment. If
you make a mess you should clean it up. We should be using
Wind and solar power. We can't use Coal forever. Big business
and corporations know coal is limited and they know this but
they just want the money. The companies don't care about the
land. He's 18 and wished more people his age were here. Go
out and vote and vote for people supporting the envir onme nt.
Jena Hobert
Resident
Lives 1800 feet from BC. Has had dogs die from mysterious
cancers. She and her husband break out in soars. They can't
sell there property. Governemnt and companies bend the data

to fit their stories. Worried about future for children.
Questioned 25M fine being reduced to 7M. Wells are bad but
now they are all of a sudden good. Duke power needs to
acknowledge that they've screwed up.
Caroline Armijo
Reclass as high or intermediate priority. Capped in place sites
are already showing GW contamination and are the subject of
lawsuits. Friends have died of cancer and have brain tumors.
This is a decades old problem. Coal ash is everywhere in our
society. Fracking will devastate this community which already
has the highest rate of ALS in the country. Provided a block of
encapsulated coal ash.
Henry Lee
Left before speaking
Gregory Hairston
Reverend
Upset that classification went from high risk to low or
intermediate risk. Has lost numerous friends to lung cancer. Is
Duke power going to provide the community with air masks.
They care more about money that lives. Why were state level
standards moved that changed a no drink order to it being okay
now. Brought up the drilling issues in a black community.
Don't let the leaders over staff threaten your jobs over your
souls. Do jobs efficiently.
Jamie McGirt-
Not from here
Cares about rural communities. Wants to know how long they
Gundlach
but represents
have to wait for clean up and what is sustainable. Asked DEW
residents for
to recommend permanent sustainable soluntions for this
coal ash clean
community. 19 of 22 risk factors called this site High Risk. Why
up
is it not High Risk. Invoked Jesus in making this determination.
Sarah Kellogg
App Voices
Brought up the incidence of cancer in the immediate vicinity of
BC. Wells of people living close have high levels of Arsenic. Air
pollution is also a concern due to years of exposure. This site
should not be capped in place. It should be excavated and
removed. SC is doing this and they are already showing
reduced Arsenic in the GW. Make this site High Priority
Ridge Graham
App Voices
Not enough is known to establish a low risk rating. Questions
the downgradient GW call. See written comments for details
because they don't make sense to him. Does not like a plan of
Cap in place here. Questioned dam stability. GW radium
nucleides are 2.5 times higher than allowable. Arsenic 5 will
create a problem in the future according to a Duke study
Ira Tilley
Lives in
Has deep roots here in Stokes County. Family lives here.
Rockingham
Concerned about water b/c water flows downhill and
county
Rockingham county could receive some of this. Called for
companies to stop giving money to elected officials and they
would have enough money to fix the problem. DEQ staff
shouldn't listen to the elected officials but to the people.
Calyn Wall
App Voices,
High School Science teacher. Many of her students have
asthma and correlated the air pollution to possibly be causing
this. Children are high priority. Concerned about them having
to deal with the high cancer rate in the area. This facility

should be high risk.
William Smith
Resident
Daughter has kidney failure, tthey should not be considered
low priority. Used to boat on the lake, ski, swim, fish. Will not
do that now. Pregnant women told not to eat the fish.
Scrubbers fixed the air polluton but caused the coal basin to fill
up. Worried about wells and groundwater issue. Just asks that
this site be cleaned up. Duke has the money. This site should
not be low priority. BC is biggest in state shouldn't be lowest
priority
Amy Adams
App Voices
360000 rely on drinking water downstream of BC. Arsenic and
Cr, vanadium have all gone into the air at this site. Drinking
water has been found at much higher than the Federal limits.
See written comments for all statistics she gave. Listed many
elements being discharged into the Dan River. Brought up SC
excavations working to reduce arsenic and wants Duke to
excavate this material and remove it for this community.
Cathy Cralle Jones
Wake Co and
Was on business end of DEQ enforcement respresenting
Environmental
landowners and businesses. Brought up experience with DEQ
Law atty
requiring violating party to test every well and could not show
compliance without doing all the work. Work needs to be done
to get the work done to make determinations. Only 23 of 40
wells in that community have been tested. This is not adequate
assessment.
Marie Garlock
NAACP — Breast
Brought up health risk issues in this community. Concerned
Cancer
about environmental injustice in this area that is layered in coal
representative
ash and hydraulic fracturing. Upset do not drink letters were
lifted due to changing standards not reduced pollutants.
Expressed concern with politicians' relationship with business
making the decisions. DEQ needs to take care of the health of
the people of NC. Make this a High risk site and clean up the
coal ash waste.
Josh Keagle
Greensboro
From Michigan, people from Michigan are not going to move
here, they are going to relocate to TN and SC?? This clean up
need to be done. If there were a rare earth element, people
would be trying to claim it. Concerned about toxic metals in
flyash and listed them all. See written comments. Concerned
for his children.
John Wagner
Resident of
Here to support this community. DEQ was given a tough job.
Chatham Co
Referenced Tom Reeder N&O article about "they didn't do a
dam thing..." Learn what's wrong, do something about it. If
you want good data you shouldn't go to Duke for the
information from self reporting. Why are you igoring your on
staff the EPA and ACOE that all call this a High Risk site. You
don't change it to low risk because you make a few patches.
Referenced Blanch Taylor Moore in comparison to Duke for
poisoning people. If the dam fails and human lives are at stake
how can you call something low risk.

Larry Webster
Physician, concerned with toxins not only of what's on the
ground but what is in the people. He has Thalium and Lead and
has Parkisons.
Gerrick Bernier
300 families in NC have been living on bottled water. What has
the governor done for violent storms? What has he done for
these people on bottled water. Who has he worked for.
David Hairston
Concerned for young speakers standing up to beg for their lives
instead of being able to work on their futures with education.
Consider the lives of the people in this community Toxins are
there, classify this site as high.
Doris Smith
Walnut Cove
Duke has had 40 years to clean up. Why hasn't It been done
Resident
yet. People need to care for people and not money. Dump
truck turned over last month and closed road for 24 hours.
Leonard Hicks
Resident
Doesn't expect this hearing to amount to anything b/c governor
is looking out for Duke