20140957 Ver 2_Deny v2 the ACP's WQ Cert w Comments_20170814 (343)

Strickland, Bev
From:Arden Kirkman <[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 1:39 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:Deny the ACP's Water Quality Certification

Dear North Carolina DEQ Officials,

Pipes break, and leak, and do not bend with earth disturbances that this project, and fracking, will cause. Water is our
most important resource. Clean water. It is he first requirement for LIFE. The pipeline is not worth the environmental
damage it will potentially cause and it is impossible to know before the fact exactly what the water quality impacts will
be.

So it is unacceptable to even think of issuing a Water Quality Certification for the life-threatening AtlanticCoast Pipeline.
Duke Energy cannot show 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 to boot.

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 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.

Arden Kirkman

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