20051457 Ver 1_RE Response to CLT Obs article.msg_20130821

Strickland, Bev
From: Elliot, Drew [drew.elliot @ncdenr.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:53 PM
To: Massengale, Susan; Reeder, Tom
Cc: Young, Sarah; Kritzer, Jamie
Subject: RE: Response to CLT Obs article
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Good changes. I will incorporate these.
From: Massengale, Susan
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:48 PM
To: Elliot, Drew; Reeder, Tom
Cc: Young, Sarah; Kritzer, Jamie
Subject: RE: Response to CLT Obs article
Drew,
I made some adjustments to your letter and Tom has no problem with them. Please consider some of this alternative
language.
Thanks,
Susan
Susan Massengale
Public Information Officer
DENR- Division of Water Resources
1617 MSC, Raleigh, NC 27699 -1617
(919) 807 -6359; fax [phone]
susan.massengale(a.)ncdenr.gov
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From: Elliot, Drew
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 11:34 AM
To: Reeder, Tom
Cc: Massengale, Susan; Young, Sarah; Kritzer, Jamie; Gillespie, Mitch
Subject: Response to CLT Obs article
Tom, here is my draft for your response to Bruce Henderson *s article. Please let me know when you have had a chance
to look at it.
To the Editor:
It is severely misleading for your reporter to write that the N.C. Division of Water
Resources let plans for a reservoir in Cleveland County #advance with no
scrutiny.# ( #State gives reservoir project an unprecedented pass,# Aug. 21)

We have been involved with this project since 2005 and have given it plenty of
scrutiny. That level of involvement and familiarity with the proposal made me
confident that there was little use in using state government resources as well as
Cleveland County#s own tax dollars to formally review a project that the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers has repeatedly stated is not needed because of viable
alternatives, as your article catalogued.
No two projects are alike, and in every case we decide what to do based on the
regulations in place and the specific merits of the case. The environment would not
be protected one bit by putting this project through the certification process.
There are enough water quality issues in North Carolina to deal with. Protecting the
quality of the water in a reservoir that will not be built is not a good use of state
resources.
- -Tom Reeder
Drew Elliot
Communications Director
N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources
1601 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699 -1601
919 - 707 -8626
drew.elliot @ncdenr.gov
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