20111013 Ver 2_Public Notice Comments_20130313

Strickland, Bev
From: Karoly, Cyndi
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:51 AM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: Fwd: Comments for tomorrow's Martin Marietta Public Hearing
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From: David Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Date: March 13, 2013, 9:57:28 PM EDT
To: <[e-mail]>
Cc: elizabeth greene <ebower rg [e-mail]>
Subject: Comments for tomorrow's Martin Marietta Public Hearing
Dear. Ms. Karoly,
Hope you are well. I am going to try my best to attend the hearing tomorrow at Beaufort
Community College -- but just in case I can't make it, I have attached my comments below.
All the best,
Dave Schwartz
Greenville, NC
My name is Dave Schwartz, conservation co -chair of The Cypress
Group of the Sierra Club, representing the interests of over 1,000 Sierra
Club members in 24 counties of Northeastern North Carolina, including
Beaufort County. We are your local chapter of the oldest, largest, and
most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United
States and are working to protect communities, wild places, and
regularly scheduling service projects and outings designed for
environmental education.
The Supreme Court has recently determined that corporations are people
and that is why Martin Marietta should play by the same rules followed
by all the other people who live, work, and recreate along Blounts
Creek.
Blounts Creek is a unique habitat and Martin Marietta should find an
alternative to their proposed discharge as it could be in violation of
North Carolina water quality standards. The pH is not right and there
are nowhere near the correct amount of fish studies that need to be

conducted. Martin Marietta should also be a better potential neighbor,
watching out for people and critters in the area where it wants to do
business. As Henry David Thoreau says, "A man is rich in proportion to the
number of things he can afford to let alone. "
Thank you for your time.
Submitted by Dave Schwartz, Conservation Co- Chair, Cypress Group of
the Sierra Club, Greenville, NC.
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