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Jennie Foushee, resident of Parrish Road for 55 years, said that she was against the expansion of the quarry. She has experienced the noise, the vibration, and the damages in the area. She has replaced a window and drilled a well. She said that the community needed public water and sewer. The community has damages associated with the quarry. She said that this was all about water, but no one cares whether they have water or not. She said that the people in the community could not afford to go to other areas. Louise Parrish, who lives at 1401 Parrish Road, said that she listened to a lot of the comments from the experts. She asked that the County Commissioners give the neighbors a fair shake in this deal. She said that if the road was going to be changed, the extraction should be divided between the neighbors of the adjoining community. Also, the community would really like to have water and sewer. She asked the Commissioners to please do the right thing by the citizens. She said that the community has only asked American Stone Company to repair the damages they have caused to the local homes and wells. Erwin Danziger and his family own property that adjoins the Parrish's land and has awned it since the mid-60's. He said that he appreciated the fact that the public was able to speak tonight. He read a prepared statement. He addressed the issue of noncompliance of American Stone Company with regard to the statement made by Paxton Badham that no one had found any noncompliance, he said that this was not a true statement. He said that the state had repeatedly found noncompliance at American Stone Company. He said that ASC was limited to 325 pounds per day in response to a violation. Related to air quality, he said that ASC used data given to them by Martin Marietta for 1999. He objected to the model used because the TSP was significantly lower in 1999 than in the previous three years. Also, the model was based on Greensboro where there is less background noise than at Raleigh. He made reference to the statements made by Dr. Malin from SONDI . He said that Dr. Malin was given the area that was not the area of the existing quarry, but the area of the proposed quarry expansion. He said that the data was based on the incorrect area. Secondly, Dr. Malin was not told what the Orange County 125 air blast limit was, but was told to use the state standard of 128. He said that there was one instance where the limit was exceeded with a blast of 130. He said that there were 12 instances where the blasts exceeded 125, which is the County standard. He made reference to Paxton Badham's comment about American Stone Company making improvements beyond what anyone else was doing. He made reference to a quarry in Haw River that has automatic sprinklers to reduce the dust. He thanked the Clerk's office for making sure that the Commissioners received all of his correspondence. He made reference to the process and said that there were things in the agenda packet that the public has never seen and therefore cannot respond to. He would like the process to be changed so that the public could respond properly to issues. He said that he has been trying to explain to the Board of County Commissioners for 10 years that the existing pit, when it is finished mining, will hold three billion gallons of water, which is what OWASA is requesting. The point is that there is not a need far the quarry expansion. Mr. Danziger spoke about the process. He said that, for the most part, the neighbors have not been asked to provide any history to Craig Benedict. He had hoped that Mr. Benedict would have obtained input from people other than advocates for the quarry expansion. He said that he prepared some written suggestions for Craig Benedict for various proposed changes to the County Zoning Ordinance and the Special Use Process. The changes were prepared as a result of John Link's letter to him of April 16, 1997. He also wrote a letter to Chair Carey with no response. He said that there was no identification of the applicant. The application is signed by Mr. Moe, President of American Stone Company, but the supporting documents are from Martin Marietta, a separate corporate entity. He said that the State of North Carolina issues all of its permits to Martin Marietta and not to American Stone Company. He is also disappointed that Dr. Cramer's and his emails to Craig Benedict have not been answered. He also would have liked to be present at the required pre-application conference. He spoke about haw the application was not complete in all respects. He said that the memo of November 9, 2000 from Robert Davis entitled "Executive Summary" was not his work, but simply aword-for-word copy of various paragraphs of the "Supplement to the EIS" from OWASA. It seems that his written comments were