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Quality and Well <br /> Impacts <br /> 17 Water - Stormwater controls and measures will prove inadequate and produce Sound Rivers / Upper Neuse <br /> Impervious negative impacts, regardless of the amount of engineering. Will increase Riverkeeper (letter) <br /> Surface and nutrient loading to the Neuse basin.* <br /> Stormwater <br /> Quantity; <br /> Water - Surface <br /> Water Quality <br /> 18 Water - Surface Concerns about potential impacts to Seven Mile Creek and Eno River, water Orange Soil and Water <br /> Water Quality quality and environmental impacts District - Board of <br /> Supervisors (letter) <br /> 19 Air - Pollution Negative impacts on air quality in the surrounding area <br /> 20 Water - Surface "Chemical and sediment runoff from the site will occur and will endanger <br /> Water Quality; threatened species in the Eno River Drainage. This is a result of the <br /> Wildlife Impacts; extensive concrete impervious surface for the travel center that will cover <br /> Water - at least 60 acres or more. The consequences will be, at some level, <br /> Groundwater degraded water quality in the Eno Basin. The Eno and its tributaries will <br /> Quantity begin to look more like degraded urban streams with reduced biodiversity <br /> and water with levels of toxic substances and sediment. The impervious <br /> surface will also decrease aquifer recharge and will result in lower stream <br /> flows during dry weather and reduced well yields near the site." <br /> 21 Air - Greenhouse Incompatibility with the Paris Climate Accord. Negative climate change <br /> Gas Emissions; impacts. <br /> Transition to <br /> Renewable Energy <br /> 22 Lack of Need for an health impact statement (including environmental impacts to <br /> Information on health) <br /> Impacts <br /> 23 Water - Impact on wildlife habitat and recreation opportunities; air quality damage, Environmental Ministry <br /> Groundwater reduced recharge to groundwater Committee, Episcopal <br /> Quantity; Diocese of North Carolina <br />