20030179 Ver 6_Public Comments_20071025 (5)

William E. Lyons
1900 White Rock Road
Culiowhee, N.C. 28723
Mr. Steve Tedder
c/o Mr. John Dorney
N.C. Division of Water Quality
401/ Wetlands Unit
Parkview Building
2321 Crabtree Blvd.
Raleigh, N.C. 27604
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0 CT 2 5 2001
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Re: 401 certification for the Diiisboro Dam removal.
Sir:
The removal of the Diiisboro Dam will have serious consequences for the
water quality of the Tuckaseegee River both short term and long term. This
will be true if all the variables are considered whether the sediment behind
the dam is removed or not. 4f course sediment removal will lessen the
degradation; but it will not eliminate fit.
Unfortunately the water quality considerations of this dam removal are far
reaching and far removed from Diiisboro and the Tuck. Because the removal
of the Diiisboro Dam is the lynch pin of the Duke Power mitigation for ail of
their Little Tennessee Basin Dams plus the Mission Dam on the Hiwassee this
401 certification is critical to aN eleven of Duke Powers Dams, lakes, and
their constituent streams. if you do not issue an affirmative 401 certification
Duke power will be forced to reopen negotiations with the relevant resource
agencies and possibly interveners in order to establish a mitigation package
that will assure better water quality than what we now have and what will
occur under the current Shoreline Management Plan that is a part of Duke
Power's package.
It is critical that you do not took only at the isolated situation of the Diiisboro
Dam but that you consider all of the waters that wilt be affected by the
implementation of Duke Power's mitigation package.
Enclosed is a compact disk containing the raw data, statistical results and
write up, both botanical and economic, of a study done at the head waters of
the West Fork of the Tuckaseegee, Lake Glenville. It is my opinion that this
study clearly demonstrates that the Duke Power Shoreline Management Plan
has failed to protect the riparian buffer and thereby fasted to protect the
water quality in the past. Since there are no provisions for protection or
restoration of the riparian buffer in their Shoreline Management Plan then as
further development occurs the water quality will be further degraded.
Duke successfully negotiated the Tuckaseegee Settlement Agreement and
the Nantahala Settlement Agreement by isolating individuals within the co-
operative teams and co-opting them by giving them discreet concessions that

met some or most of their immediate individual goals but fail to remedy
problems arising from Duke's projects operations. I urge you to consider all
of the consequences to water quality that this dam removal represents.
Respectfully
G~~- ,
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William E. ons