20140957 Ver 2_The DEQ must do its job - DENY the ACP's WQ Certification_20170814

Strickland, Bev
From:HK GUNN <[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 2:21 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:The DEQ must do its job - DENY the ACP's Water Quality Certification

Dear North Carolina DEQ Officials,

The only responsible action the DEQ can make in good conscience is to DENY the permitting of the irresponsible ACP
proposed project.

The ACP would devastate the water quality of NC.

Duke & Dominion cannot live up to the DEQ standards of water quality protections.

The ACP would break every provision of the DEQ permit.

The DEQ could not keep up with slapping all the citations & fees & remediation efforts that would ensue from the ACP
devastation to Our Water Quality.

Therefore, the DEQ MUST DENY the permitting of the ACP -such an atrocious and completely unnecessary project.

I am writing to urge you to reject the Water Quality Certification for the disastrous Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Duke Energy
hasn't 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 hurt fisheries and
the economy.

The current application for 401 Water Quality Certification simply doesn't include enough information about which
streams would be subject to trenching, cofferdams or in-stream blasting. Without site-specific details, it's 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.

HK GUNN

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