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Approved 7/5/19 Linda Nathansen: Good evening. Tim, as they are doing the work in a protected watershed area, is there going to 550 be any type of safe guard? Will there be certain precautions set up to be able to halt the work at a stage so there’s 551 not any endangerment to the Eno or to residents with the stormwater runoff or for flooding in general?552 553 Tim Smith: Yes, we monitor that and when we know something significant is going to happen we instruct contractors 554 to make adjustments to what’s in place on site. 555 556 David Blankfard: How soon after a weather event do your erosion control measures get inspected? 557 558 Tim Smith: They are required to be inspected after, I think, it’s every significant rainfall event which is like a one inch. 559 They get inspected interim on a daily, weekly basis.560 561 David Blankfard: If they find problems what do they do?562 563 Tim Smith: They instruct the contractor to fix them or else they’re done with the job.564 565 Adam Beeman: Do you have to put up silt fence and if so how much do you have to put up?566 567 Tim Smith: A silt fence is used almost every project for land disturbance areas to prevent runoff. When you have 568 bigger areas that are disturbed, you have to put in a sediment pond which is an erosion control pond. 569 570 Melissa Poole: Going back to the well issue. Are they testing wells around where they’re going to subdivide this?571 572 Tim Smith: At the concept Planning Board meeting we discussed this very extensively. We had testimony from the 573 Phil Valero from the environmental health department as to what the County does for testing of wells. I think they do 574 test on an interim basis. To respond to Zelda’s letter, it’s the same issues we discussed last meeting. Phil’s 575 testimony in the record sets the stage for how that’s done. This is not an out of the ordinary development in Orange 576 County. One acre lots are created on a regular basis with wells and septic. You go through the permitting process 577 the County, that’s required. I know there’s concerns about the neighboring properties as far as what their conditions 578 are now and the way the aquifers and so forth. On behalf of the developer, we can’t make any promises that nothing 579 is going to happen. Based on standard procedure and what is done on a regular basis through the County if we’re 580 issuing permits for wells, this is done every day. 581 582 Jessica Aguilar: Is there some sort of good faith kind of agreement or offering that the developer could make 583 asserting that any fall out that is definitely from the construction of this thing that does hit existing properties will be 584 addressed. Just out of respect for the people who have already been there for decades. 585 586 Tim Smith: When you say fallout, are you speaking of something specific?587 588 Jessica Aguilar: Such as the wells being contaminated or somebody downhill getting a whole bunch of construction 589 runoff. Just a good faith that we won’t deliberately destroy your property, but if we did and it’s obviously us then we 590 will assist in undoing the damage. 591 592 Tim Smith: I would let the develop respond if he may or not. No response. 593 594 Linda Nathansen: That was brought up at the last meeting, and I would like to respond to what happened. The 595 possibility of having some type of bond was brought up which would ensure that if anything happened to the drinking 596 water that there would be some kind of assurance from the developer. Michael brought up that no developer would 597 be able to agree to something like that, and it was an unreasonable request. Along with that question, the HOA is 598 going to be responsible for this subdivision. Directed to Mr. Smith, if an event happens ten years from now or less, 599 who do we contact, the County or the Board who has approved it? 600 601 Michael Harvey: I think that the minutes are very clear, and I think they can be read. It is the mischaracterization of602 my comments I will address at this time. The first issue that we have is there were a lot of comments at the last 603 meeting that there’s existing wells in this area that are already impaired. Individuals that have well concerns or 604