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From: Susan Poe < shpoe @windstream.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 6:42 PM
To: Craig Brown; Higgins, Karen
Subject: US Army Corps 404 Permit & DENR 401 Permit to Green Meadows, LLC
Attachments: photo 1.JPG; Untitled attachment OOO10.txt; photo 2.JPG; Untitled attachment
00013.txt; photo 3.JPG; Untitled attachment 00016.txt; COAL ASH LETTER 2 - ARMY
CORP OF ENGRS - CHATHAM COMMISSION ERS.docx
Importance: High
Dear Mr. Brown & Ms. Higgins:
Further to my subject letter to you dated March 28, 2015 (attached), I'm writing to inform you of a situation my husband
& I encountered yesterday.
Please find attached several pictures taken yesterday afternoon while driving by Duke Energy's Cape Fear Plant on
Corinth Rd. in Chatham County (less than 2 mi. from our house). These pictures show a huge amount of coal ash
blowing off their ash pond right beside the highway during low wind conditions. I can only imagine how bad it would be
with high winds! Cars were driving through the ash cloud as it hovered over the highway, along with bicyclists and
motorcyclists also. (Corinth Rd. seems to be one of their favorite routes!)
If we're exposed to this much air pollution from coal ash now, can you imagine what we're facing with trucks and rail
cars transporting it in every day to the Brickhaven mine site less than a mile from our house? We have three small
grandchildren living next door and behind us, and they love to play outdoors. We enjoyed an afternoon flying kites with
them one day last week for the first time this spring. (That was after taking a walk with them to pick up trash beside the
highway as we try to teach them to be good stewards of God's great earth.) It breaks my heart though to know what
they're going to be faced with in the years to come unless something is done to stop Duke Energy from bringing all this
coal ash into our area. At the very least, they should be held responsible for the air pollution that's taking place right
now.
Respectfully submitted for your consideration,
Susan H. Poe
3503 Corinth Rd., Moncure, NC 27559 - (919) 776 -5397 - shpoe @windstream.net

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