20140957 Ver 2_Comments on Atlantic Coast Pipeline_20170813

Strickland, Bev
From:Connie Toops <[e-mail]>
Sent:Sunday, August 13, 2017 9:52 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:Comments on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
I urge you to reject the Water Quality Certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline for the following reasons:

1) Duke has NOT shown the ACP won’t harm North Carolina's waters.
2) The ACP will cross more than 560 streams, rivers, and wetlands in our state, and put our waters at risk of
pollution and long-term harm. Our streams and wetlands would be harmed by trenching, blasting, and stream bank
erosion, and we’re going to lose important forested wetlands.
3) Our streams and wetlands are also home to birds, bats, fish, salamanders, mussels -- including threatened and
endangered species. Their protection is mandated by law.
4) Some of the waters to be crossed are high quality waters that provide drinking water to our towns.
5) It is of great concern that the Application for 401 Water Quality Certification doesn’t include enough details about
which streams would be subjected to trenching, cofferdams, or in-stream blasting. Without site-specific details, it is
impossible to know what the water quality impacts would be.
6) All of the waterways that may be impacted belong to the people of North Carolina and are important part of our
heritage.
Please don’t let this pipeline put them in danger.

Please exercise the State’s authority under the Clean Water Act to protect our waters from any violation of our water
quality. In conclusion, please reject the ACP’s Section 401 Water Quality Certification.

Thanks for your consideration,
Connie Toops
774 Wilson Cove Branch Rd.
Marshall, NC 28753
828-649-3276

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