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i' <br />�tltutt la ittshI3161 <br />HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA <br />Mr. William C. Marley <br />State Highway Administration <br />N.C.D.O.T. <br />P.O. Box 25201 <br />Raleigh, NC 27611 -5201 <br />7278 <br />March 10, 199' <br />4 <br />101 E. Orange Sued <br />F'.O. BON, 429 <br />(919) 732-2104 <br />RE: Request for a meeting between members of your staff and a delegation <br />from the Town of Hillsborough and Orange County to discuss best management <br />plans for the I -85 widening in the Sevenmile Creek watershed and the clos- <br />ing of existing connector between SR 1144 and Ben Johnson Road in Orange <br />County. <br />Dear Mr. Marley, <br />Two issues concern us in Hillsborough regarding N.C.D.O.T.'s road r <br />widening and interchange plans along the I -85 corridor in Orange CounPp.y. <br />One involves the extent to which the changesthelexisting connector under <br />The other issue concerns the <br />I -85 between Old Highway 10 and localtconnectorrough. <br />Dead ending this road will r <br />between the two communities. We have tried to arrange a public hearing <br />to address these issues through Mr. Lowdermilk, our regional representative, <br />with no success. His suggestion that a delegation of three or four <br />people meet him in his office was too limiting for our needs. <br />We do not believe that N.C.D.O.T. has adequately addressed the short <br />or long term effects of thincreasedwidening <br />impermeable Sevenmile <br />surfaceCreek <br />areaWatershed. <br />seriously <br />The increased traffic and especially <br />contribute to the degradation of our drinking water supply, P <br />inlight of the findings of the llSGSRnoff anrStreamflowaand1Water Quality <br />Administration, Effects of Highway of <br />in the Sevenmile Creek Basin, <br />Julvul98....1 erethaspalsoobeenrnolevidence <br />North Carolina, July 1981 to <br />that the engineering plans for water runoff management reflect Orange <br />County's request to upgrade the Sevenmile Creek watershed classification <br />status. <br />We also question the closing of Old Highway 10 and Ben Johnson. <br />connector road because of public safety issues, our long, term planning <br />g <br />interests, and because anehcandetheeTowntoffHillsboroughihavensent <br />keep it open. Both orange County , <br />resolutions to N.C.D.O.T. requesting that Oie Highway 1D Sr.11�4) an <br />Ben. Johnson Road connector remain open anc that best management practices <br />be used along the I -85 rec,cc_ the <br />responseethatisatisficshCur <br />watershed. As yet we have <br />concerns. <br />