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DpG°1~~ .. 1 Chair Allison asked who had the responsibility for the mitigation measures. Benedict said that z some of the responsibility will be County and some will be State. Chair Allison said that there 3 should be a place for citizens with problems to go to start the process of the mitigation. 4 5 Badham said that one of the mitigation measures says that there would be periodic community 6 meetings, hosted by American Stone, to go over questions and concerns. The intent is that the 7 mitigation measures would be part of the new Special Use Permit. 9 Holtkamp asked if there could be a designated spokesperson for the County to address the l0 concerns. Badham agreed with this. 11 12 Goodwin asked what would happen if the quarry had to close early. He asked where the County 13 would get the stone that was needed. 14 15 Badham said that there was a quarry in Wake County neaz Umstead Pazk, one in the northern 16 part of Orange County, two in Alamance County, and one in Chatham County. He said that 17 hauling was a large part of the cost. 18 19 Ed Kerwin, Executive Director of OWASA, said that OWASA does support the repackaging of 20 the mitigation for the No Fault Well Repair Fund. He said that since the April 12~' meeting, 21 OWASA's staff met with Environmental Health Director Ron Holdway and looked at Health 22 Department files for the 64 home sites closest to the quarry and found only two reported well z3 failures in 20 yeazs. He clarified that the radius was between 1,000-1,500 feet from the quarry. 24 It represented two homes deep from the quarry. He said that the water for the extended quarry 25 would come from University Lake and Cane Creek. There will be no additional water impacts. 26 He summarized some of the other benefits as a result of the abundant supply of water: 27 28 Holtkamp suggested that the residents get together individually and determine haw many wells 29 have indeed failed. She said that maybe the wells were not reported to the Health Department. 30 31 Katz made reference to Mr. Badham's chart that showed the shock waves and said that even 3z below the failure rate of a single incident, the incremental effect could create well failure and not 33 just one blast. 34 35 Chair Allison would like more comment on the mitigation process from the opponents. 36 37 Benedict pointed out that any well that has to be dug again must be permitted by the 38 Environmental Health Department. 39 4o Elliott Kramer, a retired UNC-CH professor, said that there was a focus on the wrong issue. He 41 thinks the real issue is whether or not an expanded quarry is needed. He said that the current 42 quarry could be mined for another 15 yeazs and could hold about 2.5 billion gallons of water. An 43 expanded quarry would take 30 years to hold 3 billion gallons of water. The additional water 44 that is received from this is only 2% more. He feels that this is a negligible difference. He said 4s that OWASA has made many misstatements of fact. He said that 15 yeazs of additional mining 46 would be sufficient. 47 48 Katz asked 1VIr. Kramer to elaborate on why Benedict's population projections were misleading. 49