20140957 Ver 2_Emailed - Deny the ACP's WQ Certification_20170724 (2)

Strickland, Bev
From:Care2 <[e-mail]> on behalf of Quinn Melton
<[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, July 24, 2017 11:47 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:Deny the Atlantic Coast Pipeline's Water Quality Certification

Jul 24, 2017

North Carolina DEQ

Dear DEQ,

I am writing to urge you to reject the Water Quality Certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Duke has NOT shown that the ACP won't harm North Carolina's waters.

The ACP will cross more than 560 streams, rivers, and wetlands in our state, and put our waters at risk of pollution and
long-term harm. Our streams and wetlands would be harmed by trenching, blasting, and stream bank erosion, and we're
going to lose important forested wetlands. Our streams and wetlands are home to birds, bats, fish, salamanders,
mussels -- including threatened and endangered species. Some of the waters to be crossed are high quality waters that
provide drinking water to our towns.

The Application for 401 Water Quality Certification doesn't include enough details about which streams would be
subjected to trenching, cofferdams, or in-stream blasting. Without site-specific details, it is impossible to know what the
water quality impacts would be.

All of the waterways belong to the people of North Carolina and are an important part of our heritage. Please don't let
this pipeline put them in danger.

Please exercise the State's authority under the Clean Water Act to protect our waters from any violation of our water
quality. Please reject the ACP's Section 401 Water Quality Certification.

Sincerely,

Ms. Quinn Melton
7152 Oxford Hunt Dr
Stanley, NC 28164-6803
[phone]
[e-mail]

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