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Subject: Stop Cleveland County reservoir, law center asks EPA - Charlotte Observer
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Stop Cleveland County reservoir, law center asks
EPA
By Bruce Henderson
bhenderson @charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013
A public- interest law firm wants the Environmental Protection Agency to stop construction of a reservoir on the
First Broad River in Cleveland County.
In an unprecedented decision, the Observer reported Wednesday, state regulators waived a water - quality
certificate for the controversial project last month.
The move came two years after legislators ordered regulators to collaborate with communities in building
reservoirs, which normally face tough environmental standards.
The Southern Environmental Law Center, citing ®undue political pressures® on the reservoir project, urged
the EPA to block it.
*The Division of Water Quality ®s unprecedented waiver of its authority and responsibility to ensure that this
project complies with water quality standards emerged from excessive and inappropriate legislative
involvement,® the law center wrote Stan Meiburg, EPA ®s acting regional administrator, on Wednesday.
EPA had no immediate comment.
Rep. Tim Moore, R- Cleveland, serves as the water district ®s attorney and was a sponsor of the 2011 reservoir
bill. So was former Rep. Mitch Gillespie, a McDowell County Republican who is now the state ®s assistant
environment secretary.
Cleveland County Water manager Clyde ®Butch® Smith was appointed to the state Environmental
Management Commission by House Speaker Thom Tillis, R- Mecklenburg.
State approval is needed before federal authorities can decide whether to allow the reservoir.
EPA has authority under the Clean Water Act to designate sites as unsuitable for fill material, such as dam
construction on the First Broad River.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA have both urged the water district to look at other options.

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