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16 Potential environmental impacts from parking lot run-off and 6 large tanks Voice For Efland (many articles and <br /> holding a collective 240,000 gallons of gasoline which will be dug into a citations) <br /> shale rock field that adjoins the Critical Protected Eno Watershed. This <br /> watershed provides 7,300 Hillsborough residents with clean drinking water <br /> and supplies local wells. <br /> 17 Stormwater controls and measures will prove inadequate and produce Sound Rivers / Upper Neuse <br /> negative impacts, regardless of the amount of engineering. Will increase Riverkeeper (letter) <br /> nutrient loading to the Neuse basin.* <br /> 18 Concerns about potential impacts to Seven Mile Creek and Eno River, Orange Soil and Water District - Board <br /> water quality and environmental impacts of Supervisors (letter) <br /> 19 Negative impacts on air quality in the surrounding area <br /> 20 ' Chemical and sediment runoff from the site will occur and will endanger <br /> threatened species in the Eno River Drainage. This is a result of the <br /> extensive concrete impervious surface for the travel center that will cover at <br /> least 60 acres or more. The consequences will be, at some level, degraded <br /> water quality in the Eno Basin. The Eno and its tributaries will begin to look <br /> more like degraded urban streams with reduced biodiversity and water with <br /> levels of toxic substances and sediment. The impervious surface will also <br /> decrease aquifer recharge and will result in lower stream flows during dry <br /> weather and reduced well yields near the site." <br /> 21 Incompatibility with the Paris Climate Accord. Negative climate change <br /> impacts. * <br /> 22 Need for an health impact statement (including environmental impacts to <br /> health) <br /> 23 Impact on wildlife habitat and recreation opportunities; air quality damage, Environmental Ministry Committee, <br /> reduced recharge to groundwater Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina <br /> 24 Compromised environmental stewardship principles Downtown Hillsborough business <br /> owners (13, letter) <br /> 25 Polluting the Eno River watershed and "Lowering and polluting the aquifer due to <br />