20140957 Ver 2_Deny v2 the ACP's WQ Cert w Comments_20170814 (383)

Strickland, Bev
From:Bruce Cox <[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 12:39 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:Deny the ACP's Water Quality Certification

Dear North Carolina DEQ Officials,

The citizens of North Carolina will not benefit from the proposed pipeline. Your responsibility to the citizen majority is
to value and accept their wishes and base your decisions and policy recommendations on that. It is NOT your
responsibility to make decisions against the citizen majority to benefit those who will profit, economically, from the
pipeline. Stand against the citizen majority......... and get voted out of your representative position.

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.

Bruce Cox

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