FW_ _External_ Wake Stone RDU Quarry - Deny Mining Permit 92-10

Johnson, Robert E
From: Sams, Dan
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 7:13 AM
To: NCMiningProgram
Subject: FW: [External] Wake Stone RDU Quarry - Deny Mining Permit 92-10
From: Fabio B [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 10:12 PM
To: NCMiningProgram <[e-mail]>; Sams, Dan <[e-mail]>;
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Subject: [External] Wake Stone RDU Quarry - Deny Mining Permit 92-10
My name is Fabio Beltramini, a concerned Durham resident. I call for the permit to be DENIED, under general
statute 74-51, subsection (4), due to a direct substantial physical hazard to public health and safety.
The new quarry, like the existing quarry, will emit fine particulate matter air pollution (also known as PM2.5) in
quantities that are causally predictive of increased mortality.
The EPA's 2019 Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter concludes, in no uncertain terms, that
there is a causal relationship between both short-term and long-term PM2.5 exposure and total (nonaccidental)
mortality, and that the long-term relationship exists even below annual mean concentrations of 12 pg/m3. The
World Health Cyr anization and American Lun Association have recommended limits of 10 pg/m3 annual
mean concentrations.
As presented by Elizabeth Adams, member of Umstead Coalition, Sierra Club, and a UNC research associate,
her personal recordings of PM2.5 adjacent to the existing quarry have been as high as 200 pg/m3, and there is
every reason to believe the same will be true of the new quarry. In fact, because the new quarry will not yet be
as deep as the existing quarry, its impact on air pollution will likely be much worse.
The new quarry's proximity to the park, the general public, and private dwellings, along with its expected levels
of PM2.5, and the mortality associated with these levels of PM2.5 jointly make the new quarry an undeniable
direct substantial physical hazard to public health and safety, and the permit should therefore be denied.
Sincerely,
Fabio Beltramini