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Mr. Chuck Wakild to April 2013
NCDENR- DWQ -NPDES
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699 -1617
Dear Mr. Waklid
We are writing to you to protest the permitting of water discharge into
Blounts Creek by the proposed Martin Marietta Materials Mine. My wife and I built a
house on Blounts Creek in 2003 after several years of research throughout the southeast
to find conditions that filled our requirements. The delicate balance of the estuary
system here in Beaufort County was not a primary concern at the time. Over the ten
years that we have lived here we have learned a lot more about our environment and
how precious it is not only to us but to all of the country and our descendants. We do
not have scientific evidence to present attesting to the detrimental effects of dumping 12
million gallons of fresh water into the creek but we can offer many antidotes of the
occasions when there has been a major increase in fresh water due to heavy rain. The
marine species that inhabit this creek are many and varied and their abundance attracts
all sorts of visiting wildlife both in the water and in the air. Changing that delicate
balance of the estuary will almost certainly have some impact that will be immediately
visible with the accumulative impact over time unimaginable.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Robert L and Teresa S Jenkins
95 Waters Edge Drive
Chocowinity, NC 27817
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