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300 JAMES STREET CARRBORO, NC 2 510 (919) 967-3054 COMMENTS TO THE CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN ON THE AMBERLY DEVELOPMENT July 28, 1987 Mr . Mayor and members of the Board of Aldermen . I am Allen Spalt . I live at 300 James Street . I am Director of the Agricutlural Resources Center and its PESTicide EDucation project based in Carrboro. This Board is faced with Amberly once again . It may be a fine project , but it is in the wrong place at the wrong time . It is proposed for the University Lake drinking water watershed before we know how much development that area can stand and still provide safe drinking water . You should exercise great caution . You prudently rejected the development in April when it ( called for public water and sewer . You were right to be concerned about the effects--and the precedent---of extending public utilities into the watershed. But that has never been the primary issue . The only changes in the proposal are for the worse . I would like to reafirm my statement to you in opposition to the devolopment at the public hearing April 14, 1987. Amberly should be rejected again . The key issue is density, not the method of waste disposal . Major development should not be allowed until the watershed study is completed. My earlier statement did not • specifically mention extension of water and sewer lines, though some are now saying that that was the major , even the only, objection to Amberly. --What of the new proposal ? The only changes in the new plan are for the worse . Chief among them is the plan for a private low pressure undergraound injection system. Private waste disposal systems have a mixed record, at best . They can work if they are well designed, properly installed, carefully maintained, and not overloaded. Unfortunately , that is often not the case . Ten to 15X of low pressure ground systems permitted in NC have failed.