20140957 Ver 2_Emailed - Deny v2 the ACP's WQ Certification_20170814 (354)

Strickland, Bev
From:Jeff Beane <[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 9:15 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:Deny the ACP's Water Quality Certification

Dear North Carolina DEQ Officials,

I am writing to urge you to reject the Water Quality Certification for the disastrous Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Duke Energy
has not shown that the pipeline won't harm North Carolina's waters, yet the company wants to dynamite and dig deep
trenches through our creeks and wetlands, which could cause massive erosion and spell disaster for threatened wildlife.

The pipeline will cross more than 560 streams, rivers, and wetlands in the state. It will put our waters at risk of pollution
and long-term damage. And harms to any of these waters could also contaminate drinking water and harm fisheries and
the economy.

The current application for 401 Water Quality Certification does not include enough information about which streams
would be subject to trenching, cofferdams, or in-stream blasting. Without site-specific details, it is impossible to know
what the water quality impacts would be. This is unacceptable.

The combined threat to wetlands, forests, people, and wildlife--not to mention the lack of demand for more electricity--
is more than enough to justify the rejection of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I urge you to exercise the state's authority
under the Clean Water Act to protect our waters and reject the pipeline's 401 permit.

Thank you.

Jeff Beane

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