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Air - Pollution; <br /> Wildlife Impacts <br /> 24 Other Compromised environmental stewardship principles Downtown Hillsborough <br /> business owners 13, letter <br /> 25 Water - Polluting the Eno River watershed and "Lowering and polluting the aquifer <br /> Impervious due to large impervious surface area."Too much impervious surface, runoff <br /> Surface and problems. <br /> Stormwater <br /> Quantity; <br /> Water - Surface <br /> Water Quality; <br /> Water - <br /> Groundwater <br /> Quality and Well <br /> Impacts; <br /> Water - <br /> Groundwater <br /> Quantity <br /> 26 Air - Greenhouse Loss of 104 acres of habitat, contributions to global warming <br /> Gas Emissions; <br /> Wildlife Impacts <br /> 27 Lack of No environmental studies have been done to see how this would affect the <br /> Information on water, air, and surrounding nature. <br /> Impacts <br /> 28 Water - Paving over approximately 70 acres of pervious surfaces will mean that an Two retired EPA staff <br /> Impervious annual average of nearly 25,000 gallons per day of clean water will not be <br /> Surface and recharging the aquifer, in an area where there is heavy reliance on wells for <br /> Stormwater water supply. Instead, this water will run off into a stormwater <br /> Quantity; management system. It will then infiltrate contaminated water into the <br /> Water - Surface aquifer with overflow either to the streams or the sewage plant. This is a <br /> Water Quality; critical impact of this proposal which requires further evaluation before any <br /> Water - decisions are made; the unusually high concentration of gas pumps and <br /> Groundwater underground tanks will create high risk of leaks and spills, as well as regular <br /> Quality and Well <br />