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Page <br />I, General Comments: <br />The environmental assessment of the Grange bounty Transfer <br />Station Site 056 is incomplete. It lacks data and references to <br />calculations, and in the absence of data and numerical values,, <br />impacts cannot be accurately assessed. describing effects as <br />"minima[" is vague and does not allow for scientific comparison. <br />Given the incomplete information in this assessment and the Lack of <br />timely public notice to Orange County residents,, an environmental <br />impact statement on Site 056 should follow. <br />Orange County's selection of Site 056, the West 54 L.LC properly in <br />Bingham Township for a waste transfer station would transform a <br />historically rural and agricultural area into an industrial zone. <br />Rural residents and farmers driving tractors across Highway 54 would be . <br />faced with tractor trailers and collection trucks six days a week on a two- <br />lane undivided road and narrow country roads. Increased truck traffic, <br />airborne particulate matter and 200,,000 square feet of impermeable surface <br />would have a significant impact on air and wader quality., and on regional <br />drinking wader supplies originating in the Collins Creek, Haw River and Cane <br />Creek watersheds. A two story industrial facility operating six days a week in <br />a rural zone would also be a source of noise and light pollu ion, <br />The 143 -acre heavily wooded site is almost six times grater than the 25 <br />acres originally proposed For a transfer station and buffer, and the county <br />has cited the possibility of unspecified future uses of the property,, which his <br />several areas of wetlands. The site is has no municipal water or sewer <br />service and is 12 mikes from the center of waste generation, interstates and <br />rail access. <br />Comments- Orange County Transfer Station Site 056 Environmental . e ent <br />Laura Streitfeld, Preserve Rural Orange <br />