20111013 Ver 2_Public Comments_20130408 (6)

Strickland, Bev
From: Karoly, Cyndi
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:55 AM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: FW: MARTIN MARIETTA MINE PERMIT - BLOUNTS CREEK, BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC
From: Belnick, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:29 AM
To: Karoly, Cyndi; Adams, Amy
Cc: Rawls, Paul
Subject: FW: MARTIN MARIETTA MINE PERMIT - BLOUNTS CREEK, BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC
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From: DAN & FRANCES BRADLEY [mai Ito: bradleyfarms sprintmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:10 PM
To: Wakild, Chuck
Cc: Belnick, Tom
Subject: MARTIN MARIETTA MINE PERMIT - BLOUNTS CREEK, BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC
Gentlemen,
My name is Frances Bradley. My husband Dan and I own the Campground on Blounts Creek.
As a land owner on Blounts Creek, Pamlico River, Atlantic Beach, Manns Harbor & Wancheese, North Carolina, I am
aware of the permits that we had to have to do anything that pertains with our wonderful water resources and to prove
that nothing we planned to do would harm our environment.
At first I did not have a problem with Martin Marietta building a mine in our area, but with some research, it was evident
that they would draw down the Cape Fear aquifer, thereby lowing the water table to the point that the new well that
Beaufort County just build would be totally dry within a few years if not before and completely destroying Blounts
Creek.
Only 1 test was taken on Blounts Creek during the month of April, 2012. If memory serves me correctly, we had a lot of
rain during the first part of the year as we have this year.
HOW can one days sample be taken and then compared to a mountain stream in the northeast part of the country.
Here again, I believe the sample was taken in New Hampshire. There is no comparison.
Blounts Creek is one of the last pristine bodies of water that saltwater fish come into to spawn in this area. The Pamlico
River has been irrevocably harmed by PCS Phosphate, now Martin Marietta wants to completely kill Blounts Creek.

I am not a scientist, but I have been exposed to and been around enough scientist to understand that if 9 -12 million
gallons of water are released into the creek each day, that no saltwater fish will survive coming into the creek to spawn.
The Creek will turn into a fresh water body of water and will be forever lost.
There has to be another way to dispose of the water pumped from the mine. I know pumping it into the creek is the
cheapest way, but is it the right way?
Thank you for your time and PLEASE, do not allow this atrocity to happen to the people of Beaufort County, North
Carolina.
Frances W. Bradley, NCCP
919 - 671 -4285