20140957 Ver 2_Public Notice Comments_20170808 (310)

Strickland, Bev
From:Catherine Carter <[e-mail]>
Sent:Tuesday, August 08, 2017 2:39 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:ACP
Dear Division of Water Resources,

I would like the DEQ to reject the application to build the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline based on the harm it could
cause to the communities who would live nearest it. At risk are nearly 37,000 feet of 326 waterbodies and at least 467.7
acres of valuable wetlands which filter pollutants, provide drinking water, and support businesses and recreation.

Why assume that this pipeline could destroy or diminish all that? Well, honestly, because the best predictor of future
behavior and results are PAST behavior and results, and what we've seen with the petroleum industry is that where it
digs, it spills, and where it transports, it spills. Over and over and over: where there is petroleum at the surface, there
are spills...from an industry whose history of willingness to seriously address or prevent those spills is sketchy, to say the
least. And, as you know, the current application from ACP doesn’t provide nearly enough information for DEQ to make a
sound decision.

Please: reject this application and the pipeline. If ACP is serious about wanting a pipeline, then require it to provide the
information you need to make a decision, and to provide, and document, the preventive measures it's taking to avoid
spills in all the communities and resources through which this pipeline would pass, and require those measures to live
up to the best and strictest possible standards of safety. If ACP can't do that, it doesn't deserve even a chance to poison
our wells, contaminate our streams, or damage our common and individual properties.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Catherine Carter

241 Oak Forest Dr
Cullowhee, NC 28723

8282935585

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