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Dave Neill: Mr. lannone, in the Board's package, under tab one is a document titled, Affidavit of Louis lannone. Is this your statement? Louis lannone: Yes Dave Neill: Is it truthful? Louis lannone: Yes, sir. Dave Neill: And does it contain your signature that was given under oath? Louis lannone: Yes Dave Neill: We would offer the affidavit of Louis lannone into the record. Our next witness is Brent Neiman, civil engineer and project engineer for the project. Brent Neimann: Good evening. My name is Brent Neimann. I am a civil engineer with Strata Solar. I have been sworn into the record this evening. I prepared the plan that was submitted with the application. I am very familiar with this type of development. I have been with Strata Solar for about a year and a half. In that year and a half I have worked on approximately a hundred solar farm sites of this size or larger in general. This is the standard size project that we undertake. It is a five megawatt AC facility. This particular site is pretty much covered in vegetation as it exists today. As Mr. Harvey spoke to, we will prepare the necessary approvals. We worked closely with Wesley Poole on our White Cross Farm, and we will prepare the erosion and sedimentation control plans that are consistent with the ordinances. As he spoke to, there are existing streams and wetlands in the southwest corner of the property. In general, the property slopes that direction, including from the northeast towards the southwest. As the other gentleman has spoken to, this is a very low impact development. We don't propose any grading. The only grading we do will be the installation of the access, which we will obtain a NCDOT driveway permit for. And there is a minor amount of grading at the inverter areas to divert surface water away from the facilities- basically just to keep them dry, but that is very minimal activity. In general this is a very pervious project. We have provided a letter to Mr. Harvey as well, from the state of North Carolina DEANR, division of water quality, to that effect. The panels on the racks have approximately one inch gap between each panel, and the racks themselves have anywhere from four inches to eight inches between those racks. Water hits the panels, finds those voids between the panels, hits the ground, and you have surface drainage just like you had before. No change in the surface pattern, so there is no introduction of additional water. We are not moving water to other areas of the site. It hits the ground as it did pre - development and continues on that path. You do have a requirement in your ordinance for a pre and post calculation for the one year 24 hour storm. We will certainly meet those requirements as well. A little bit about our construction practices - We utilize logging mats for temporary stabilization of the site. We don't use gravel. The logging mats are placed on site to prevent rutting, or in wet areas, or as construction sites go - during rain events it's going to get muddy. So those are in place to allow access of material, specifically where the staging area is for delivery of material. The staging areas are not nearly large enough to store material. We strategically plan deliveries and installation of material so that the material sits for a very minor amount of time — a day or two — before it is placed into the areas of the site that it will be installed in, and then it is immediately installed. That staging area is temporary only. There will not be any permanent