20140957 Ver 2_Deny the ACP's WQ Certification w comments_20170811

Strickland, Bev
From:Cybele Knowles <[e-mail]>
Sent:Friday, August 11, 2017 12:39 PM
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
hasn't shown that the ACP 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 ACP 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. And so 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 ACP's 401 permit.

Thank you.

Cybele Knowles

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