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Relations with Durham County L 1444- <br />There is considerable (and understandable) anger growing within Durham County with <br />regard to this project. It has not escaped notice that while on the one hand Carrboro, <br />citing the potential pollution of drinking water, recently turned down a request to put an <br />organic golf course in the University Lake watershed, while Orange County is proceeding <br />full speed ahead to put a C &D landfill within a stone's throw of Durham's Lime River. <br />The assumption made in Durham County is that the difference here has to do with whose <br />watershed is threatened. <br />This issue has the potential to poison relations between Durham and Orange Counties for <br />years to come. Consider: <br />- -The Durham County Commissioners have already expressed their opposition to this <br />project. <br />-- Durham County is intervening with the state DNER to oppose the issuance of a permit <br />for this facility. <br />-- Durham County's zoning ordinance would not allow the development of any C&D <br />landfill this close to the Little River. If this site were a few hundred yards to the east it <br />would not be permitted because of Durham County's watershed protection zoning. <br />-- Consider what will happen the first time wastes from this facility are found floating <br />down the Little River? <br />-- Consider what will happen the first time there is a serious accident along Guess Road <br />(or elsewhere along the transportation route) due to debris falling onto the roadway from <br />trucks heading to this facility? <br />