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APPROVED 10/13/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 8/27/2014 Page 32 of 64 1 Larry Wright: How about the additives? 2 3 Matthew Rhoads: There are no additives in natural gas. 4 5 Larry Wright: Oh, ok. 6 7 Matthew Rhoads: Fracking is maybe what you’re thinking about which is… 8 9 Larry Wright: No, I’m thinking about propane. 10 11 Matthew Rhoads: Well, there’s the additive for the smell. 12 13 Larry Wright: Ok. 14 15 Timothy Ives: Just to clarify my concern with the well was any construction even lateral digging or 16 exploding both of those and how that would potentially contaminate. 17 18 Matthew Rhoads: Legally, we’d be required to pay for damage to a well whether its physical damage or 19 contamination or anything like that. 20 21 Larry Wright: Thank you sir. Next speaker please. 22 23 Michael Harvey: Jason Thomas. 24 25 Jason Thomas: Good evening, my name is Jason Thomas having been sworn. I’m a licensed attorney 26 in the State of North Carolina. I am an employee of the Department of Justice so I think it’s important to 27 note that I am here solely in my personal capacity and I’m not here as a representative of any kind. I live 28 at 8107 Old NC 86, my driveway happens to be under or over I guess, the existing pipeline and adjacent 29 to, I don’t know what particular kind of station it is that they are erecting but they are erecting a station on 30 Old NC 86 and that’s adjacent to my driveway. So my comments touch upon matters within your 31 jurisdiction that are concerns raised by my immediate experience with their construction activities on and 32 near my property. The two areas within your jurisdiction I think are important have to do with public 33 safety and with maintaining the character of the environment and the nature of the development in the 34 area in which they are working. I observed, as it happens the end of my driveway is the bus stop for the 35 public schools and the PSNC folks who are doing the work there seemed entirely uninformed of that fact 36 and made no plans for moving the bus stop to a safer place so in effect, the school bus was stopping to 37 pick up my children and other children in what seemed to me more akin to an industrial construction zone 38 than a residential driveway. I was disappointed that PSNC had not foreseen that and taken steps to 39 move, even temporarily, the bus stop to a safer place. It seems to me that you have the power by a 40 condition of this permit to require that they make such planning and I would encourage you please to 41 consider that. I have observed from their work area substantial amounts of sediment flowing during 42 stormwater events into the ditches along the side of Old NC 86 and from there into the perennial stream 43 that flows underneath Old NC 86 and eastward toward Chapel Hill. I see erosion control devices in place 44 but they are plainly inadequate for the job so I would encourage by virtue of another condition of the 45 permit that some kind of accelerated or perhaps slightly aggressive inspections be taken place to make 46 sure that their sedimentation control devices don’t merely comply with their plans but actually meet state 47 standards. My third concern has more to do with the above ground structures than. 48 49 Larry Wright: You have to be sworn in, you’re giving testimony. 50 51 Jason Thomas: I’ll be happy to swear. 52 53 Larry Wright: Ok, just put your hand on towards the bible. Do you affirm that what you’re saying is the 54 truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 55