20140957 Ver 2_Public Notice Comments_20170718 (193)

Strickland, Bev
From:Keely Wood <[e-mail]>
Sent:Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:14 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:ACP
Do not approve the ACP application permit: BUFFERS in the wetlands

 The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project will cross nearly 7 miles of streams and destroy nearly 28 acres of forests and
riverside (riparian) vegetation, which serve as buffers to prevent polluted runoff into those streams.
 These impacts are dismissed in the application as “temporary,” despite the lack of meaningful analysis of their
combined effects downstream and the lack of any sites identified for riparian buffer mitigation.
 In its 401 certification application, ACP, LLC acknowledges the project includes or is adjacent to riparian buffers
identified by the NC Riparian Buffer Protection Rule, but fails to include a “diffuse flow plan” to reduce erosion
and sedimentation, saying it would be developed under their Sedimentation and Erosion Plan.
 As of July 11, DEQ reports they have not received a complete Sedimentation and Erosion Plan, so the ability to
protect downstream water quality can’t be evaluated in the absence of a plan to ensure diffuse flow over
disturbed buffer areas.

Keely Wood
Euro USA Trading Co. Inc.
Central & Eastern Sales Manager
919-708-5221
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