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APPROVED 10/13/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 8/27/2014 Page 41 of 64 1 Larry Wright: The next witness. 2 3 Michael Harvey: I’m going to go back to Ms. Wendy Feldmann. 4 5 Wendy Feldmann: I think most of the stuff is either going shot down or not be relevant since I’m not an 6 expert so I can’t speak on the topics other than they personally affects me and how we’ve been treated 7 by PSNC. 8 9 Larry Wright: Next witness. 10 11 Michael Harvey: Kenneth Feldmann. 12 13 Ken Feldmann: Ken Feldmann and I have been sworn in and I live at 5715 Buckhorn Road. One of the 14 things I’d at least like somebody to address or at least look into is in our backyard is Turkey Hill Creek 15 which is a watershed it feeds into Cane Creek and a 100,000 people in Chapel Hill/Carrboro drink that 16 water but part of that proper watershed is the animals and stuff that live there and during the droughts 17 and stuff we’ve seen that there are fresh water mussels living in that area and at least we would like an 18 assessment done to say ok you’re not killing when you trench through that creek any endangered 19 species. A lot of the fresh water mussels in North Carolina are either on the state or state owned federal 20 endangered species. I would also talk a little bit about the right to use of the current easement of the one 21 time we attempted to use the easement, was we were having some trees cut down in our yard and the 22 people who doing the logging parked their vehicles on the pipeline and they do surveillance flights 23 occasionally over there and they flew by and the plane kind of took a closer look and some people in the 24 volunteer fire department took a look out and thought the plane crashed and went all out searching for it. 25 I don’t know it that matters or not but the next day the representatives from PSNC came along to see 26 what we were doing on the pipeline and the vehicles were parked on it and we were strongly encouraged 27 to not have those vehicles on the pipeline because they were sitting on top of the 1952 pipeline and they 28 considered that extremely fragile. So that’s just something when they’re doing the construction on this if 29 they’re five years or seven years ago, I can’t remember exactly when we had that done, if they are 30 worried about the integrity of the 1952 pipeline to encourage us not to park heavy vehicles on it what are 31 they going to do to do the construction? 32 33 Matthew Rhoads: We are happy to address that. I mean outside of this forum. 34 35 Ken Feldmann: Ok. The other concern I have is they were talking about how they properly maintain the 36 pipeline well our section of the pipeline when Cardinal came through planted a bunch of bush clover 37 which is kind of an invasive species but it grows about 7 feet tall and every year or year and a half or two 38 years or so one of the pipeline crews comes by and bush hogs it. In that process they come and knock 39 down all the markers or at least a good bit of them. They are either plastic or some of them are 40 aluminum and they get knocked down so there is really at any time there’s one or two markers on a 41 couple of about well I think we have 800 feet right-of-way for those things and at one point we are on the 42 other side of the other pressure release valve that blew one day we had ours going off so I walked out to 43 the pipeline and it had a nice 20 foot plume of natural gas. I probably should have called 911. 44 45 Larry Wright: Do you have another point sir? 46 47 Ken Feldmann: But I went out there to find the phone number and to call off the signs and I couldn’t find 48 one. Except close enough, really close to the valve. The pressure release valve, which I wasn’t going 49 near. They did make proper maintenance of the pipeline is one of the regulations they are supposed to 50 follow and I have lived there for 15 years since 99 and I’ve seen the signs go away. There might have 51 been a couple come back but. 52 53 Larry Wright: Ok, thank you very much. 54 55