External Mining Permit 92-10 Protect Lake Crabtree Countys Parks connection to Umstead State Park

Johnson, Robert E
From: Ken Brockenbrough <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 11:05 AM
To: Regan, Michael S
Subject: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] Protect Lake Crabtree County's Park's connection to
Umstead State Park
Michaell Regain, Secretary DEQ,
Odd FeHows Tract: Stop the Quarry
Naime: IKein IlBiroclkeinlbrouglh
From: Durham, 15 minutes west of Harrison 1:11vd
Occupancy: Recent retired as Speciall Education teaclheir/Duirhaim; avid off. -road cyclist who
has ir9iddein the tral10s of Uimstead and L.ake Crabtree for over a decade.
l willll make 3 Ipoliints, irellating to the corridor, the liabilities and the imoiney.
Corridor
This tract of Ilaind is centered liin the imiddlle of our local 1:11ack Creek Gireeinway and of the
larger East Coast Gireeinway all the way dowin the east coast. Further, imoving Ibetweein L.ake
Crabtree and Uimstead Iby Ibilke and Niking wound Ibe hindered Iby this imiinlling expansion.
LJ4bflllty (sound, water, air, Image)
Present and inear future: The sound of blasting impacts ineighb&ling homes; Crabtree Greek
is open to aIIII the iruinoff without oversight. RIDU, exercising as l understand it the Ipoweir of
eimineint doimallin, quietly zo16ling the area as lindustriaVimii6ling, has liin fact st6lein the rights of
Durham and RaIleigh/Wake for their short term gain, leaving residents and travelleirs with ain
mage of Iirireslpoinsibifity.
L.oing Term: Raleigh Durham willl Ibe exchainglling the oppoirtui6lty for a wondeirfUl
recreationaUfoirested site, for a gaping h6le with ino vallue and Ipoteint4l for oing6ling safety
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Money
RDU Ihas Ibeein offered fallr it airket vallue Iby the Conservation Fund, up firoint as a Ipuirclhase llin
lieu of a Iloing term Ilease, Iprovli61ng liirrme6ate imoinlies to RDU to it alke inecessairy
limproveirneints. Fuirtlheir, NC imallintallins Iprlioir Iprecedeint of Ipublic Ilainds Ibeliing used for IpubBlic
purposes, inot setting a Iprecedeint for Ipr!vate concerns cornrnaindeeir!ing Ipublic space w�tlhout
oversight.
Oppoirtuinllty
We are inot just trylling to stop an action, Ibut to ire61rect nine, inot oimly for the Ipublic good, Ibut
keeping the concerns of RDU firoint and ceinteir as weEl. Rejecting the quarry Iproposall s1hoUld
�be seen as an Iiincredlible opportuinllty for our iregion to llinvest llin the expain6ing ineeds of
Tir9�ainglle residents, w1ho cVeaidy hove the daffy opportuinllfies they Ihave at Uirnstead and IL.alke
Crabtree!
�Kein 1Biroclkeinlbrough
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16 faEliing water Dir
Duirhaim, North Cairohina 27713