External Mining Permit 92-10 The public deserves our public lands to be protected - deny rock mine (4)

Johnson, Robert E
Michaell Regain, Secretary DEQ,
l aim wilting to request DEQ deiny Welke Stone imiinliing Ipeirmit 92 10.
There are inuirineirous adverse outcomes lif a quarry is coinstructed oin this critically Iprecious
hind. The imost sig16lficaint MH Ibe to Uimstead State Park, Crabtree Greek, the East Coast
Gireeinway, recreation llin the Old Reedy Creelk Corridor and the thiree adjacent homeowners.
DEQ has fai0ed to restore the Sunset Clause to the current Welke Stone quarry operations
that were Iproirinised to eind llin 2031, 50 years from 1981. This erodes trust llin the inew proposal
for yet ainotheir daimagiling quarry.
Recreation areas Iiinclu6ing gireeinways should Ihave a 250ft uin6stuirbed Ibuffeir (old Reedy
Cireelk Road) to mallintallin the gireeinway experience. There should Ibe ino Ibeirms or walkls wiitNlin
that Ibuffeir zoine. Ad6fioinalkly, the Odd Felklows Tract has Ibeein identified as a "Cir9lficall IL.aind
Acquisition bract„ Iby INIC State Parks for Urnstead State Park for water qualkty protection and
poteint4l forested Ibilke tral10s. The 1Boy Scouts Ihave camped, Inflked, and (bilked oin this (property
since 1958. It is also crucial for local Wil6kife and a treasured irecreatioinall area that should Ibe
�preseirved for iresideints.
Given the Ibeinefits to the commuinllty and einviroiniment, RIDU Airport Authority was offered a
fair deal to conserve the Ipropeirty Iby the Conservation Fund and should reconsider that offer
�lin light of the Ipublic Ibeinefits lit would Iproviide. There is Iprecious little undevebped gireein
space left llin the Tarr 4nglle area; fits citizens Ihave Iloing expressed that these areas Ibe treasured
and protected iratlheir thain destroyed.

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