20111013 Ver 2_Public Comments_20130322

Strickland, Bev
From: Karoly, Cyndi
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:43 PM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: FW: Blounts Creek- Martin Marietta discharge permits
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From: Bownes, Janice H
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:42 PM
To: Bob Daw
Cc: Karoly, Cyndi; Adams, Amy
Subject: RE: Blounts Creek- Martin Marietta discharge permits
Mr. Daw,
Thank you for your email. I am forwarding it to Cyndi Karoly, in our Wetlands & Stormwater
Branch, and to Amy Adams, in our Washington Regional Office, who are compiling comments on
this issue.
Best regards,
Janice H. Bownes
Executive Assistant to the Director
Division of Water Quality
Phone: 919 - 807 -6357
www.ncwateroualitv.or
Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public
Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties unless the content is exempt by statute or
other regulation.
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From: Bob Daw [mailto:bwdawl(@embargmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:11 PM
To: Bownes, Janice H
Subject: Fwd: Blounts Creek- Martin Marietta discharge permits
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Attached are comments and supporting pictures in reference to objections of the Martin
Marietta draft permits (NPDES & CWA Section 401) for open pit mining in Beaufort County.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Strickland, Bev
From: Karoly, Cyndi
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:36 PM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: FW: Blounts Creek- Martin Marietta discharge permits
Attachments: Blounts Creek destroyed. zip_renamed; Blounts Creek destroyed Itr.pdf
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From: Bownes, Janice H
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:42 PM
To: Karoly, Cyndi; Adams, Amy
Subject: FW: Blounts Creek- Martin Marietta discharge permits
Janice H. Bownes
Executive Assistant to the Director
Division of Water Quality
Phone: 919 - 807 -6357
www.ncwateroualitv.or
Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public
Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties unless the content is exempt by statute or
other regulation.
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From: Bob Daw [mailto:bwdawl(@embargmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:11 PM
To: Bownes, Janice H
Subject: Fwd: Blounts Creek- Martin Marietta discharge permits
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Attached are comments and supporting pictures in reference to objections of the Martin
Marietta draft permits (NPDES & CWA Section 401) for open pit mining in Beaufort County.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Bob W. Daw
226 Crisp Landing Rd..
Chocowinity, NC 27817
March 22 2013
Chuck Wakid
Director
NCDENR -- Division of Water Quality
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699 -1617
Dear Mr. Wakid:
This purpose of this letter is to support and add to my comments made at the public
hearing in Washington, NC on March 14, 2013 regarding the Martin. Marietta's requested
discharge water permits to run a 649 acre open pit mine in Beaufort County. I am not
against the operation of the mine but I am against any discharge of their waters into our
pristine brackish Blounts Creek waters when there are other viable options.
My Wife and I currently live on Blounts Creek and 1 have had an intimate love for the
creek for over 2.0 years. I currently write and submit email fishing and wildlife reports
with pictures to over 100 + people. Most are fishing friends that I have met over the years
from all over Eastern North Carolina. I have many pictures of fish caught in this creek
that are typical of brackish and saltwater fish like speckled trout, puppy drum, black
drum, flounders, etc.
We are not a freshwater creek and it mares my blood boil for "want -to -be experts" to say
otherwise. You don't catch speckled trout, blue crabs and puppy drum in Goldsboro or
Greenville. Our Neuse & Tar Rivers in these areas are under a lot of stress from
agriculture, industry and city sewer treatments. I would pause to eat many fish from
these. Blounts Creek is one of the last little bodies of water unspoiled by business
pollutions.
Experts can generate data to say about what they want. I do not understand much of the
data and scientific mumbo jumbo but I do have common sense. You can't dump as
much water as Martin Marietta wants to in Blounts Creek and not change it for the worse
and forever.
I want to spend my aging years at Blounts Creek along with my children, grandchildren
and if I am lucky, my great grandchildren, enjoying the variety of fishing and wildlife we
have here. My children & grandchildren often say I want to come to the "creek ". I am
not a man of much monetary means but I am so rich to be able to live on and be a part of
what this beautiful Blounts Creek has to offer. I would like to leave this legacy for my
family and other for many years to come.

Chuck Wakid
March 22, 2013
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In closing, please use common sense that I suspect that you can back by scientific
knowledge to deny Martin Marietta's discharge permits. Along with this letter, I am
submitting some pictures of coastal brackish water fish caught in this creek that are not
found in fresh water.
'hank you for accepting my comments along with pictures.
Sincerely,
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Bob W. Daw
Resident of Blounts Creek