20111013 Ver 2_Public Comments_20130412 (2)

Strickland, Bev
From: Karoly, Cyndi
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 1:08 PM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: FW: Martin Marietta Proposed Mine in beaufort County comments
From: Roxanna Sheets [mailto:roxanna-sheets(a)amail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:46 AM
To: Karoly, Cyndi
Subject: Martin Marietta Proposed Mine in beaufort County comments
Please review Dr. Cook's comments(attached), as well as those generated by ECU professors
and the PTRF before approving the paid for study by Martin Marietta. I have advised Mr.
Hodge, at a public meeting sponsored by the PTRF, of Water Quality at the Washington Office,
that the MM studies were conducted within 36 hours of major rain events, some of them over 2"
1 and that the "Fresh Water % data" was tainted by these rain events.
This fresh water discharge to Blounts Creek is a pollutant to the brackish environment that
change negatively the eco system of the creek. Please have MM use an alternate method of
discharge. The users of their mined product can pay the extra cost of the alternate discharges,
rather than have the environment pay the cost!
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105 Waters Edge Dr
Chocowinity, NC 27817
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J,:O any event_ look at the allached pictures of healthy fish from Mounts Creek at pH 4.0-
55., They, seem to be thriving. They represent , reality, not conjecture (titer„ am mane
other pictures).
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4�more malm of fteshwater speCiee,r iponng the ilia tha 'It WOuW Prolmbl'Y
d,es" the nwm ampoftnt saltwaW TMICS.

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to acl water flowmg through mmshy Organic rich soil. Thus, Blounts CreA c=not be
assumed, to have high al lev0s It may Wso be that the f1shsimply utn't as
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in any evcnt look at the amched pictures of fiA caughtin Blmmts CrCT k. The speckled
trout do not took like they am sufting ftm aluminumpoisoning (itWity vtMIS
speculation). Thus there seems to be no need to pmp mme wata inio Wounts Cre-ek, to
"saw the fish ftom �dummum PIMAOBiI47�
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