20051457 Ver 1_RE NC Reservoirs.msg_20120420

Strickland, Bev
From: Kountis, Elizabeth [elizabeth.kountis @ncdenr.gov]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 4:13 PM
To: Peter Raabe
Cc: Fransen, Tom; Reed, Steven; Reeder, Tom
Subject: RE: NC Reservoirs?
Peter - I handle reclassifications of surface waters, including waters proposed to be used as water supplies. I would like
to discuss #6 below with you, and will give you a call soon!
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Kountis
Senior Environmental Specialist
Classifications & Standards Unit
NC DENR Division of Water Quality
Tel: [phone] FAX: [phone]
www.ncwaterguality.org /CSU
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From: Reeder, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:10 AM
To: Peter Raabe
Cc: Fransen, Tom; Reed, Steven; Kountis, Elizabeth
Subject: Re: NC Reservoirs?
Peter—Thanks for your kind words. By the way, I am fairly certain that the water efficiency program that we are in the
process of implementing was a result of your efforts in the General Assembly. Let me answer your questions below in order.
1. Those handouts are accurate and were presented to the ERC late last year. The second one (on Randleman) was
actually composed and presented by Robin Smith.
2. 1 sincerely doubt if we have any info related to the costs of the dam construction. Probably the only entity that can
provide that info is the actual dam owner.
3. Same answer as #2 above.
4. 1 would talk to either Tom Fransen or Steve Reed about Randleman. I have cc'd both of them on this reply.
5. Correct. Those are the only ones that I know of. All of those situations are very dynamic.
6. Not that I know of. You may want to ask this question to Betsy Kountis in DWQ because anyone considering a
possible dam would approach her about a reclassification.
Just let me know if you need anything else. Thanks.
Tom Reeder
Director, NC Division of Water Resources
Phone: 919 - 707 -9027
email: tom.reeder @ncdenr.gov

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From: Peter Raabe <praabe @americanrivers.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:31:23 +0000
To: Tom Reeder <tom.reeder @ncdenr.gov>
Subject: NC Reservoirs?
Tom-
It was good to see you last week in New Bern. I think it is great that you keep talking about the great work y'all
are doing on both ecological flows and water efficiency!
We are working on a new report on reservoirs, in particular looking at the financial burden that they can put on
a community if the right process is not pursued. In general we are just looking for some historical data at this
point. I am hoping that you can help me out in finding some of that info, so I have a couple questions:
- One of my colleagues in GA was able to find the attached hand out that —from the hand written info -
came from an update to the ERC in November of last year, is it accurate?
- Would you or someone on your team happen to have information on the costs of the dams list on the
sheet or be able to point us to where that info might be?
- If y'all do have the cost info on the listed projects, would it possible to also get what the projected costs
were and want the final costs were ( if they were not the same)?
- Since Randleman was the last reservoir to be finished in NC, who is the best person to talk to about that
project to get the nitty- gritty on the pros and cons of the project and what pushed it to completion? Is
that you?
- Looking forward the only dams truly being considered at this point are: Little River in Wake County,
First Broad in Cleveland County, and Brunswick County's speculative water storage project... right?
- Are there other impoundments out there that have been talked about but have never had any real serious
consideration?
Thank you very much,
Peter
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