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Approved 9/10/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 17 of 82 clean up your water supply is like that oil deal we had a few summers ago trying to clean the water out of that so I am 1 very concerned about that. Also, the cell towers, I am concerned about the safety of our young children, our senior 2 citizens, the residents that live at the base of these cell towers and how it could affect us. I heard the term about radio 3 frequency radiation emitting from there and I am really concerned about it. I don’t know much about it and the little bit I 4 can read from the short time I got that letter to come to this meeting, I am thinking about a microwave and it just slowly 5 cooks your brain or whatever. The buffer… you said there was water buffer of 150 feet where this tower will be 6 constructed but the electromagnetic radiation policy institute says that it should be constructed within 1,500 feet. This 7 is an international recognized precautionary standard. I feel like it is too close to the neighbors who are right there at 8 the base. 9 10 Samantha Cabe: 1,000 and something feet from what? 11 12 Linda Ward: From your neighbors. 13 14 Samantha Cabe: Could you say that statistic again, one more time. I was confused, you said it should be located 15 1,000 and some feet but you didn’t say from what. 16 17 Linda Ward: I am referring to this part where you say you have a water buffer of 150 feet; they say we have a water 18 buffer of 150. I am also saying that the Electromagnetic Radiation Policy Institute says that international precautionary 19 standard should be 1,500 feet. 20 21 Samantha Cabe: From what? 22 23 Linda Ward: What is this from? 24 25 Samantha Cabe: That is the stream buffer that you can’t disturb the land. 26 27 Linda Ward: But it says it is 150 feet buffer from what? 28 29 Samantha Cabe: That is the stream buffer; you can’t disturb the land within. 30 31 Linda Ward: Our property is much closer. Our property is closer, you have a 150 feet buffer here and then you have 32 our property on the other side which is not 1,500 feet. It is too close. We don’t have enough distance between our 33 houses and that cell tower. 34 35 LaShaun Ward: My name is LaShaun Ward, I know my name is next and I was sworn in. I grew up out there like Mr. 36 DeGraffenreid and so the major concern is health. I love technology. I am a retired teacher and was in the military but 37 the major concern must still be for health and that is what she is addressing. Everybody out there is on well water and 38 what would happen if radiation gets into some of those wells that are about 72 feet. I know those wells do run into 39 University Lake. That is the major concern is health. Technology is great, I love it and when it works it is super. 40 41 Linda Ward: We were talking about how many cell towers were out there and how many exist so I went on the website 42 www.antennasearch.com and I typed in 1426 Old Greensboro Road to see what it would say. It said there are already 43 an existing 22 towers found within a four mile radius and south of Old Greensboro Road and it says that eight are 44 registered and 14 are not registered. We have towers that are not registered so who knows about them but the 45 system did give a list of those towers and they are .28 of a mile of 1426 Old Greensboro Road and .32 of a mile of Old 46 Greensboro and then there is American Towers but there are other towers too. It gave a whole list of those. I am 47 hoping we can research this further and find out the affects and get a bonefied study of what will happen to us as 48 neighbors in that community. Also, you had mentioned that we need the cell phones and we need internet and the 49 other devices, cable, internet, cell phones and all this and we are saying is this really a need. Well we do have a need 50 for information. We have a need for it but when I was in school financing student loans and when the students came 51