External Mining Permit 92-10 The public deserves our public lands to be protected - deny rock mine (7)

Johnson, Robert E
Michaell Regain, Secretary DEQ,
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1I aim requesting DECK deiny Wake Stone Corp's application for a inew crock amine, imiinliing Ipeirmit
92 10. Ad6fioinaEly, RIDU Airport Autlhoirrlty was offered a fakir Beall to conserve the Ipropeirty Iby
the Conservation Fund and it shoUld Ibe reconsidered Ibased upoin that offer llin Illight of the
public Ibeinefits it would Iprovlide. 1But imost llimportaintly, to care, llin ad6fioin to the Ip6lllution and
notorious affect a quarry cain have oin surrouin6ing Wildfife, a inew quarry at Odd Fellows Tract
would sever the nine known wiii!6�lfe corridor connecting RaIleiglh to the rest of the Eastern
MIdway that ruins from Canada to Florida. This is llincredlibly ecologllcaHy dairnag�ling.
As weEl as, theire is Illttle gireein Ilaind heft MINlin the trliainglle that is undevebped, and shoUld Ibe
protected and conserved, aElowiiing us to reima�lin a ination destination Ibeca use of our
ecologicall conservation and focus. Green spaces, conservation, these are good for touiristry,
as weEl as for the habitats, inatuire, and ainllmalls around us. All of these tlNlings are important
parts to our IlocaIl einviiroiniment, and to how our quallllty of allr, water, and so oin reima�lins. IL.ess
gireein imeans Mess flora to lhellp fifteir allir, (less imeans to clean it, cycle it back out for us. It
means sbwed decomposition Ibeca use of impacted ecologicall systeims that cointriibute to that,
limpacting ainllma�ls. And it imeans faster desertification. IL.ess gireein imeans Mess compact
ground, greater risk of imudslides and Ilaindslibes. Not oimly that, Ibut quarries cain llimpact the
groundwater table, especiaEly if rivers and bodies of water are inearby. If those sources of
water are aIlso sources for ainllma�ls, thein that cain Ibe Ipoteintialllly daimaglling for those ainllimall
popUlations. RegWation is inot aWays a catch aH for (large operations Illilke this. There MH imost
defiinlltelly Ibe a imistalke that happens somewhere, or soirinetINling shipping through the cracks,

and that can have dirairnatic ecobgllcall effects, which MH affect aIlkl of us as wellkl, as WE are
aIlso Ipart of the ec6logy of the iregion.
Not oimly this, Ibut the Odd FeHows Tract has Ibeein identified as a "Cidficall IL.aind Acquisition
Direct" Iby NC State Parks for Uirnstead State Park for water quallkty protection and IpoteintGall
forested Ibilke tral10s. The 1Boy Scouts have camped, (Milked, and (bilked on this Ipropeirty since
1958. DEQ, (please restore the Sunset CIIause to the current Welke Stone quarry operations
that were Iproirnised to eind llin 2031, 50 years from 1981. It is inot yet that firne.
Thank you for talking the firne out of your day to read imy imessage. And (please, (please talke lit
to heart. Thank you agallin, wellkl and safe wishes to you.
E. Reeves &rois
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