20061203 Ver 1_Public Notice Comments_20060620

Richard Helman
3121 Grand Oak Lane
New Hill NC
27562
Dear Ms. Karoly
I am a resident of New Hill and attended the DENR Meeting in Apex last week. I
feel that the New Hill Community Association has presented many valid points and
solutions to the placement of the Waste-water Treatment Plant, but I have one
overriding concern that has weighed heavily on my mind for some time. This concern
has to do with the inevitable leakage of raw sewage from the source to the
treatment plant and the resulting contamination of wells and surface water in the
New Hill area.
The pipes will run from North to South across the Beaver Creek streams to the
plant. When those lines leak, not only are the local water supplies in the New
Hill area going to be affected but Jordan Lake itself will receive raw sewage at
the Ebenezer entrance to Jordan Lake. I find no information indicating who would
be responsible for cleaning up the potential mess or providing uncontaminated water
for residences in this area, or for the surface water clean-up for the livestock
drinking water and irrigation ponds in the Jordan Lake Watershed.
The point made at the meeting indicated that the current pumping of raw sewage
within the Western Wake Partners area occurs within areas that are provided with
municipal water supplies so the potable water is not contaminated when these system
failures occur. In New Hill and the Jordan Lake watershed, spilled, untreated
sewage will not be contained and will inevitably enter the drinking and irrigation
water supplies as well as Jordan Lake itself.
After attending the meeting in Apex, I agree that the most viable solution would be
to treat the waste-water within the WWP communities and pump only treated water
from there to the river south of Harris Lake. In that way, the water spilled
during a failure of the transport system would be much less of a problem within the
down-flow area. I see no other fail-safe solution to the problem. I do not want to
have our wells, surface water and Jordan Lake polluted with raw sewage, which based
on the past record, will happen. It would be only a matter of time.
Respectfully,
Richard Helman
3121 Grand Oak Lane
New Hill, ~C 27562
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