P-0395 - No Fault Well Repair Fund Policy 06-04-2002-9a

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02:49 PM EMPOWERMENT. PROJECT 9199671963 To: Orange County Health De~artinent Fxrvironmental Hea1W Aivlsion 306-C Rcvero Road Hillsborough, NC 27278 re; the No Fault Well Repair Fund Policy draft We, the undersigned l+esidents living near the Americurn Stowe quarry, submit these comments under st. The overall health and welfare of our community is at risk due to American Stowe tarry operations. dur primary concerns are water quality and well failures, structural damage to ow homes, r+eleetlesa noise pollution, and potentially hazardous levels of silicate matter in the sir as well as radon poisoain~, carcinogenic petrochemical aepage from a former asphalt plate, and problems relating to danYemus levels of truck traffic. Thd possible consequences of the proposed relocation of Bethel- Hlckory Grove Church Road to accomodate OWASA and the Quarry's proposed plans are also of serious concern to many. In a spirit of cooperation that will hopefully bring relief to people already suffering well problems in our area, we, aside from comments submitted to the Board of Health individually, collectively suggest the following: that retroactive compensation be paid to those residents who incun+ed well damage that normally would have been covered by the No Fault Well Repair Fund but had already undertaken the financial burden of repairing their damaged wells prior to the approval of the administtative policy that the policy address a significantly greater roplenishment of the fund so that the fund accounts for inflation acrd adequately corttpensates for increases in damages as intensified blasting begins with the guarry s expansion that the language of the policy more clearly indicate that pump failures resulting from well-related problems (such as silt build-up, etc.) are also covered by the fund N Mailing Address ~aoo vo.~f-ac~c~, z zr~ ~sfl~ ~Dr_ ~•+~. 25/6 Phone Number 31 Y~q-q~-r-~ a z ~ 9~9ar~ • • • • • •