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Home My WebLink AboutClark_ACPcommentsPcL — ae. �-�.�.� 2 2 Jay .SEa W �a? 1 tM r _e J 8 ✓� R lL.A 1.1 v — v.-�.l -.. .. -cc-,,--t --. DA o,--- f--c, ,--- f--o c o_s -- JU-<i� RECEIVED APR 03 DENR —WO—QUALITY --_._._- T.ORMWATERPERMITTING NORTH CAROLINA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER • ESTABLISHED IN 1816 Tuesday, February 20,2018 fayobserver.com' I y'{lfayobserver I f facebookcom/fayobserver $1 r tAGJJJ� /�w ■Win pul and By Steve DeVane - Staff writer Cumberland County commission- ers rezoned more than 41 acres of land Monday night that is expected to be usea to store egmpmem ror the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but the proi- ect was not mentioned. In'other action, commissioners approved' a preliminary engineer- ing'report that will estimate the cost of running water lines to the Gray's Creek area. Tests of some wells that provide water to'houses in the area showed elevated levels of GenX, which is made at the Chemours plant off N.C. 87 just across the county line. The rezoning issue approved by commissioners involves land on Downing Road, near N.C. 24, from residential to planned industrial. The Cumberland County Planning Board last month unanimouslyapproved the change, which was recommended by the planning department staff. County records say, the zoning change was requested, by john S. Hair]r. and Neil Yarbo;roiigh,'a Fay- etteville lawver. The records do not County. A company spokesman said the applicaticnisexpectedtobesub - miffed later this month. The company plans to use the rezonedland as a contractor's yard. It will include three gravel parking lots �andfuel tanks, according to state and county records; ro oiect• - asked if the land would be used for State officials have said Atlanticfhepipeline. Yarboroueh said. "Like Coast Pipeline LLC, the company that Isaid Pilloutomorrow." is building the natural gas pipeline, • . Yarboroug and several other needs a more detailed permit to build a contractor's yard mi Cumberland r See PIPELINE, A4 ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE Who is building it? Dominion Energy, Duke Energy and Southern Company Gas formed Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC to build the pipeline. How much will it cost? About $5 billion Where will it go? The 600 -mile pipeline will start in West Virginia and run through Virginia into North Carolina: How much of the pipeline will be in North . Carolina? The proposal calls for about 186 ` miles of the 36 -inch transmission pipeline to go through the state, running through the northwest corner of Sampson County and eastern Cumberland County, before ending near Pembroke in Robeson County. Source: State and company records From Page Al people left immediately after the commissioners voted to rezone the property. Nobody spoke at the public hearing on the matter. Tom Clark, a pipeline opponent, was at the commis- sioners' meeting and spoke earlier during a separate public comment time. He said after the meeting that he did not know the rezoning was related to the pipeline. "I just sat here and didn't know what happened," he said. "It's like I got sucker punched." In a separate zoning case, Commissioner'Glenn Adams didn't like the rationale for the change mentioned about the future Interstate 295. He said the land was about five miles from the highway. Commissioner Marshall Fair - cloth questioned whether it was that far away. ly Adams said he went to the site recently. "That's how I know," he said. Faircloth responded that he went in the area to go to a popu- lar restaurant. Both voted for the change. The preliminary engineering report VIP apProved by com - missioners without discussion. The commissioners' Finance Committee had discussed it last week. The report will look at how much it would cost to run water lines to an area that includes a land around the Chemours plant. The plant makes GenX, which is used to make nonstick coat- ings on cookware -and in other products. The compound has been linked in animal studies to several forms of cancer, but it isn't known if the effect is the same in humans. The chemical has been detected in more than iso private wells at a level higher than the state's provisional health goal. The Fayetteville Public Works Commission has agreed to pay half the cost of the pre- liminary engineering report. Commissioners have said that they want to work with PWC if they decide to run water lines to the area. County officials say that if the county decides to move forward with the project, it likely will seek state and federal funds to help pay for it. County Manager Amy Cannon also has talked with the manager of the Chemours plant about contrib- uting to the effort, but has not received a commitment. f From Page Al people left immediately after the commissioners voted to rezone the property. Nobody spoke at the public hearing on the matter. Tom Clark, a pipeline opponent, was at the commis- sioners' meeting and spoke earlier during a separate public comment time. He said after the meeting that he did not know the rezoning was related to the pipeline. "I just sat here and didn't know what happened," he said. "It's like I got sucker punched." In a separate zoning case, Commissioner'Glenn Adams didn't like the rationale for the change mentioned about the future Interstate 295. He said the land was about five miles from the highway. Commissioner Marshall Fair - cloth questioned whether it was that far away. ly Adams said he went to the site recently. "That's how I know," he said. Faircloth responded that he went in the area to go to a popu- lar restaurant. Both voted for the change. The preliminary engineering report VIP apProved by com - missioners without discussion. The commissioners' Finance Committee had discussed it last week. The report will look at how much it would cost to run water lines to an area that includes a land around the Chemours plant. The plant makes GenX, which is used to make nonstick coat- ings on cookware -and in other products. The compound has been linked in animal studies to several forms of cancer, but it isn't known if the effect is the same in humans. The chemical has been detected in more than iso private wells at a level higher than the state's provisional health goal. The Fayetteville Public Works Commission has agreed to pay half the cost of the pre- liminary engineering report. Commissioners have said that they want to work with PWC if they decide to run water lines to the area. County officials say that if the county decides to move forward with the project, it likely will seek state and federal funds to help pay for it. County Manager Amy Cannon also has talked with the manager of the Chemours plant about contrib- uting to the effort, but has not received a commitment. U it , 112 44 It LETTER TO THE EDITOR What are pipeline -article in the Feb. 20 Fayette- b' and landowners that will e sponsors hiding?_ 0 ville Observer about a zoning affected by this project? chang6states "The records do If facts are hidden now, what On Feb. 19 1 was present not mention the Atlantic,Coast can one expect after it is in the -at the Cumberland County Pipeline, -but the land matches ground? Who will make sure our , dommissioners meeting. On a map on the N.C.Department families and homes are safe? Not the agenda were uncontested of Environmental . Oualities the ACP. Why would"o ' ne think zoning cases, and one of those website related to the project. the ACP cares about us after the cases.was. for the Atlantia., Throughout this whole fact if they can't be more forth- orth-Coast CoastPipeline storage yard. project the ACP has been very coming with the facts how? • When this vote came up, the, �slow intivingarpswers to so 'When the -ACP tries to hide A CR proj ect, was not men many qudstionsi Even with- something as small as rezon- tioned; jbst'the case hufnber. the N.C. I56parhTibnt of Ehvi- ing piroperty that should §end Why -itsohardfortheACP ronmental Quality questions. upared flag toall ofuswho to be open about this project Why is it So hard for the ACP live in the blast zone. with famill6sandlandown- to be more forthcoming with ers that it, affects? Ahews` lnforihation to thd families Tom Clark; Wade.7. 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