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Strickland, Bev
From: Jim Behmer <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:49 PM
To: '[e-mail]'; Culpepper, Linda
Cc: Higgins, Karen; 'Aaron Church - Rowan County
([e-mail])'; Cook, Clinton; 'Jody Smet'; Graham Corriher;
'[e-mail]'; Lane Bailey; Jeff Jones; '[e-mail]'
Subject: [External] Engineering Review of Sedimentation and Flood Plan for Yadkin River Raw
Water Intake and Pump Station (FERC Project N. 2197)
Attachments: CubeHydro_FERC_EngineeringReview 9-27-2018.pdf
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Attention:
CarLisa Linton -Peters, Acting Director
Division of Hydropower Administration and Compliance
888 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20426
Linda Culpepper
Interim Director
NC Division of Water Resources
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1617
Dear Secretary Bose, Director Linton -Peters, Director Culpepper, and Supervisor Higgins:
The City of Salisbury, North Carolina plans to provide by October 18, 2018, an engineering review of the Sedimentation
and Flood Plan for Yadkin River Raw Water Intake and Pump Station submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission by Cube Yadkin on September 18, 2018 ("Engineering Review').
We request that you consider the Engineering Review in your deliberation and decision on whether Cube Yadkin's plan
satisfies the plan requirement established by Water Quality Certification DWR # 12-0900 Conditions 8 and 9 and by Article
401(a) of the federal license for Yadkin Hydroelectric Project (No. 2197). We commissioned the Engineering Review
because a decision to approve the submitted incomplete plan would lead to implementation of a plan that would have at
least decades -long consequences for the City of Salisbury's critical water supply infrastructure. Thank you for considering
our request.
Jim Behmer, P.E.
Director

Salisbury -Rowan Utilities 11 Administration
City of Salisbury 111 Water Street, Salisbury, North Carolina 28144lS7l/crP#
Office: [phone] 11 Cell: [phone] 11 Fax: [phone]
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City of Salisbury
North Carolina
Office of the
City Manager
Ms. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
September 27, 2018
Attn: Ms. CarLisa Linton -Peters, Acting Director
Division of Hydropower Administration and Compliance
888 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20426
Ms. Linda Culpepper, Interim Director
NC Division of Water Resources
Attn: Ms. Karen Higgins, Supervisor,
401 & Buffer Permitting Branch
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1617
Re: Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, FERC Project No. 2197
North Carolina Water Quality Certification DWR # 12-0900
Engineering Review of Sedimentation and Flood Plan for Yadkin River Raw Water
Intake and Pump Station
Dear Secretary Bose, Director Linton -Peters, Director Culpepper, and Supervisor Higgins:
The City of Salisbury, North Carolina plans to provide by October 18, 2018, an engineering
review of the Sedimentation and Flood Plan for Yadkin River Raw Water Intake and Pump Station
submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on September 18, 2018 ("Engineering
Review").
We request you consider the Engineering Review in your deliberation and decision on whether
the plan satisfies the plan requirement established by Water Quality Certification DWR # 12-0900
Conditions 8 and 9 and by Article 401(a) of the federal license for Yadkin Hydroelectric Project (No.
2197). We commissioned the Engineering Review because a decision to approve the plan would lead to
implementation of a plan that would have at least decades -long consequences for the City of Salisbury's
critical water supply infrastructure. Thank you for considering our request.
Sincerely,
W. Lane Bailey
City Manager
217 S. Main St. P.O. Box 479 Salisbury, N.C. 28145 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

FERC Project 1297
September 27, 2018
Page 2
cc: Salisbury City Council
Aaron Church, County Manager, Rowan County
Clinton Cook, Regional Engineer, DEQ Division of Water Resources, Public Water Supply
Section, Mooresville Regional Office
Graham Corriher, City Attorney
V. Randall Tinsley, Environmental Counsel for City of Salisbury
Jody Smet, Cube Yadkin Generation, LLC