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APR-23-2002 02:02 PM EMPOWERMENT. PROJECT <br />To: Orange County Health Department <br />Envirotuneatal Hea-!th Division <br />30d-C kevcra road <br />Hillsborough, NC 2?2?8 <br />n: the No Fault Wall Repair Fund Policy drs~t <br />We, the undersigned residents living sear the American Stone quarry, submit these <br />comments under et. The over~W health and welfare of our eommuoity is at risk due to <br />American Stone harry oporations. Our primary conccros arc water quality and well <br />failures, structural damage to our homes, relentless noise pollution, and potentially <br />hazardous levels of silicate matter in the air as well as radon paisonin~, carcrnogenie <br />petrochemical sedge from a former asphalt plant, and problems relating to dangerous <br />levels of truck ttnttic. The possible Consequences of the proposed relocation of Bcthel- <br />Hickory Greve Church Road to acconclodate OWASA and the Quarry's proposed plans arc <br />also of serious +eoncern to many. <br />In a spirit of cooperation that wi11 hopefully bring relief to poo already suffering well <br />problems in our area, we, aside~from comments submitted to Board of Health <br />indivrdualSy, collectively suggest the following: <br />that retroactive compensation be paid to those residents who incurrod well damage that <br />rtorrnally world have been covered by the No Fault Well Repair Fund but had already <br />undertaken tho financial burden of repairing thar damaged wells prior to the approval <br />of the administrative policy <br />that the policy address a significantly glister replenishment of the fund an that the fund <br />accounts for inflation and ~quately compensates far increases in damages as <br />intensified blasting begins with the quarry's expar>ssion <br />that the laagnage of the policy more clearly indicate that pump failures rosuiting firm <br />well-related problems (such as siltbuild-np, etc.) arc also cov+cred by the fluid <br />• <br />• <br />ame Mailing Address Phone Number <br />~'' <br />~'t'~- ~ ~42'~ Sa~l~~ ~~~C-7.~~t`~C9t~ 4b~~31~'3 <br />'~~e~.t. ~laa ~o ~.- ~ Gl~~ l~.~<< ~~ a~s-it <br />q6~~~y <br />2/~~ ~~ <br />' ~~~~ <br />~~ ~ ~~/~ <br />a:-z,~ . ,~,...~ z/.?l Q~ rn.~ ~.ot.. [;~~t~,~, ~, 7(c.~9s~iG J'1o Y G 9/I 6 <br />9199671953 P. 01 <br />_, ~ <br />• <br />• <br />