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11 1 2 Louis lannone: Yes 3 4 Dave Neill: Is it truthful? 5 6 Louis lannone: Yes, sir. 7 8 Dave Neill: And does it contain your signature that was given under oath? 9 10 Louis lannone: Yes 11 12 Dave Neill: We would offer the affidavit of Louis lannone into the record. 13 Our next witness is Brent Neiman, civil engineer and project engineer for the project. 14 15 Brent Neimann: Good evening. My name is Brent Neimann. I am a civil engineer with Strata 16 Solar. I have been sworn into the record this evening. I prepared the plan that was submitted 17 with the application. I am very familiar with this type of development. I have been with Strata 18 Solar for about a year and a half. In that year and a half I have worked on approximately a 19 hundred solar farm sites of this size or larger in general. This is the standard size project that we 20 undertake. It is a five megawatt AC facility. This particular site is pretty much covered in 21 vegetation as it exists today. As Mr. Harvey spoke to, we will prepare the necessary approvals. 22 We worked closely with Wesley Poole on our White Cross Farm, and we will prepare the 23 erosion and sedimentation control plans that are consistent with the ordinances. As he spoke 24 to, there are existing streams and wetlands in the southwest corner of the property. In general, 25 the property slopes that direction, including from the northeast towards the southwest. As the 26 other gentleman has spoken to, this is a very low impact development. We don't propose any 27 grading. The only grading we do will be the installation of the access, which we will obtain a 28 NCDOT driveway permit for. And there is a minor amount of grading at the inverter areas to 29 divert surface water away from the facilities- basically just to keep them dry, but that is very 30 minimal activity. In general this is a very pervious project. We have provided a letter to Mr. 31 Harvey as well, from the state of North Carolina DEANR, division of water quality, to that effect. 32 The panels on the racks have approximately one inch gap between each panel, and the racks 33 themselves have anywhere from four inches to eight inches between those racks. Water hits 34 the panels, finds those voids between the panels, hits the ground, and you have surface 35 drainage just like you had before. No change in the surface pattern, so there is no introduction 36 of additional water. We are not moving water to other areas of the site. It hits the ground as it 37 did pre-development and continues on that path. You do have a requirement in your ordinance 38 for a pre and post calculation for the one year 24 hour storm. We will certainly meet those 39 requirements as well. 40 41 A little bit about our construction practices -We utilize logging mats for temporary stabilization of 42 the site. We don't use gravel. The logging mats are placed on site to prevent rutting, or in wet 43 areas, or as construction sites go - during rain events it's going to get muddy. So those are in 44 place to allow access of material, specifically where the staging area is for delivery of material. 45 The staging areas are not nearly large enough to store material. We strategically plan deliveries 46 and installation of material so that the material sits for a very minor amount of time—a day or 47 two — before it is placed into the areas of the site that it will be installed in, and then it is 48 immediately installed. That staging area is temporary only. There will not be any permanent 49 storage of any materials on the site. As they stated, there is no noise associated with this. It is 50 a fixed rack. We drive the post into the ground with a machine similar to what NCDOT uses to 51 drive guardrail posts. Embedment depths range anywhere from three feet to eight feet,