20150041 Ver 1_Susan Poe - Comments 404 401 Permits_20150330

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From: Susan Poe <shpoe @windstream.net>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 11:27 AM
To: Devane, Boyd; Higgins, Karen; Diana Hales; James Crawford; Karen Howard; Mike
Cross; Walter Petty
Subject: U.S. Army Corps 404 Permit & DENR 401 Permit to Green Meadows, LLC
Importance: High
FYI, below is letter I mailed to Mr. Craig Brown, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Office, today
responding to subject permits.
Mr. Craig Brown
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Office
3331 Heritage Trade Drive, Suite 105
Wake Forest, NC 27587
Dear Mr. Brown:
SUBJECT: US Army Corps 404 Permit & DENR 401 Permit to Green Meadows, LLC
Thank you for the opportunity given citizens to comment on the stream & wetlands permit applications of
Green Meadows, LLC (affiliated with Charah), for Duke Energy to store coal ash in Lee & Chatham
Counties. As a life -long resident of the Brickhaven community of Chatham County, I am very concerned about
Duke Energy's plan and how it will affect our safety, health, and quality of life (not to mention property
values!).
We've been told — 120 trucks a day, plus numerous railcars, will be hauling this coal ash into these areas. As
we're already inundated with trucks on roads in this industrial section of Chatham County, we can only imagine
what the traffic will be like once all these additional trucks start coming in. Case in point: After turning onto
Corinth Rd. from Old US 1 last Wednesday, I met two 18- wheelers, a tanker truck, a log truck, & then another
tanker truck within �/z mile! There are currently four large industries on Corinth Rd. which is approximately four
miles long. Factor in traffic from all their employees, and residents in the community, and you can imagine how
crowded these roads are already. Add all of Charah's trucks and you have accidents just waiting to happen!
Another concern I have is what the pollution from this coal ash will do to our environment. I know Charah
claims it will be "wet down" and "covered with a tarp" before leaving the Duke Energy plant sites. With those
sites over 100 miles away, do they really think this toxic ash (with contents of mercury, lead, arsenic, selenium,
etc.) will not dry out during transport and be released into the environment? — and not just in Lee & Chatham
counties but all the counties it will pass through to get here!
We live on land that has been in our family for over 100 years, as do our daughters and their families, and the
Brickhaven mine site is less than a mile from our house. We have an abundance of good well water and are
very concerned about ground water contamination from this coal ash once it is stored in the clay mines. We've
already had to contend with water run -off from these mines through our property that has polluted Goff Creek
nearby (which flows into the Cape Fear River). What was once a clear, refreshing body of water is now nothing
more than a muddy eyesore!

I appeal to you to schedule an open hearing on this matter, listen to what the citizens have to say, and reject
Green Meadows' permits. Duke Energy needs to take responsibility for this problem they've created and find
other alternatives for handling their coal ash.
Sincerely,
Susan H. Poe
3503 Corinth Rd., Moncure, NC 27559 — (919) 776 -5397 — shpoe o,windstream.net