NC0087866_Comments_20240406

From: Katie Gumerson
To: SVC DEQ.oubliccomments
Subject: [External] John F. Kime WTP NCO087866
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2024 3:12:24 AM
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Regarding PTRWA's NPDES permit renewal:
Over the past 4 years, Jamestown citizens and the surrounding community have
become engaged and outraged at the corporate greed taking over our what we
perceived as `our perfect little town'. We've been raked through the proverbial coals in
terms of over -development and rapid change that makes zero sense for the
comprehensive future of a 3500 person town. The local government has negated the
concerns of local citizens and thrown caution into the wind with their allowances of
big corporations to come in and kill this town, similar to the big corporations who have
been throwing toxic chemicals into our water supply. Randleman Lake/PTRWA has
been the recent supplier for water to Jamestown, within 2 years. And for almost the
entire time, local citizens have been researching and becoming armed with information
that, quite frankly, is scaring us. Foreign -run corporations like Alberdingk Boley are
pouring their resin chemicals into Jamestown's critical watershed areas, to the tune of
30,000 gallons in 2 (one hidden and one barely disclosed) accidental spills. Meanwhile,
approvals of new zoning types and development onslaughts are completely ignoring
federally -deemed critical watershed areas. Additionally and simultaneously, Eastside
Water Treatment Plant (unpermitted) continues to pollute Deep River along with the
landfills, many other factories, and run-off from hundreds of acres of abandoned
brownfield land.
Expansion to suit the water needs for the future of Greensboro/surrounding area and
renewing this permit should only happen if, and only if, the finished water that runs
through our taps is publicly tested and reported free from PFAS, Dioxane, VOCs, Vinyl
Chloride, Toluene, Chromium, Mercury, Arsenic, etc. Until then, no permits for the
continuation of deploying toxic water into our finished water need to be granted.