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ERC Meeting of NC State Legislature Oct 9

10/10/2013

Will Creedmoor be the first?!

Yesterday, the Environmental Review Commission of the North Carolina State Legislature met in Raleigh. Creedmoor’s sewage plant was on the agenda. Tom Reeder, Director, North Carolina Division of Water Resources, made the presentation to the full committee for the public record. Several folks from Granville County were in attendance including County Commissioner Ed Mims and Del Mims, candidate for Creedmoor City Commissioner.

The take-away from Director Reeder’s presentation yesterday?

It will be easier for Creedmoor to break into Fort Knox than get a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) on the effluent discharge into the Tar River.

You can hear him in this audio clip talk about the endangered dwarf wedge mussel that the construction of this plant would further imperil.

So…Environmentally Destructive!

Director Reeder addresses in this clip what he considers to be the Major Issue!

The plant is unnecessary! SGWASA has the capacity.

And we all know that it is financially insane! Creedmoor has been overcharging its citizens for 7 years, even the county schools – Mayor Moss himself said that signing a contract with SGWASA would save the Creedmoor schools $140,000 a year! Let’s get this money back into the hands of the citizens and children of Granville County!

It is time for The Mayor and The ‘Ommissioners to drop this harebrained scheme and stop threatening the entire state with a plant that will not be approved.

It is 7 years past time for The Mayor and The'Ommissioners to sign a contract with SGWASA.

One More reason.....

Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

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"Curiousier and Curiousier!"

9/10/2013

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Mr. Pete Benjamin, Field Supervisor in the Raleigh Office of US Fish and Wildlife, wrote an excellent comment letter on Creedmoor’s proposed sewage plant. You can read the entire letter here. This excerpt from page 6 is what to think about for today.

The Tar-Pamlico Basin Association is comprised of cities that discharge sewage effluent into the Tar River. National Spinning, a textile mill in little Washington, the only industrial discharger-member, ceased operation in December 2004.

“Tar-Pamlico Basin Association (TPBA) Membership
The ES [Environmental Study] and PER [Preliminary Engineering Report] should contain additional information about how Creedmoor became a member of the TPBA, and how the logistics of acquiring "unused" nutrient allocations were figured out. None of the documentation about the transfer of nutrient allocation is provided in Appendix III of the PER. The PER (p.57) indicates these should be available, but they are not included in the document. According to Phase III of the Tar-Pamlico Nutrient Sensitive Waters Implementation Strategy (NCDWQ 2005b, p.7), under Table 1, Section III- Association Members there is an indication that there was a permanent removal of the sole industrial discharge from National Spinning. It is not clear in the Phase III document that this discharge would be made available for future allocation.”
[Emphasis is mine. The ES and PER are here on Creedmoor’s website.]

To discharge sewage effluent into the Tar River, Creedmoor had to become a member of the Tar-Pamlico Basin Association AND had to somehow procure a ration of 1.2 million gallons a day of sewage effluent. NC Department of Natural Resources was not allowing new discharges into the Tar River. This should have forced Creedmoor to do the right thing and join SGWASA, to reduce the water and sewer rates for the citizens of Creedmoor. But nope, not an obstacle for our sneaky boys, The Mayor and The ‘Ommissioners.

For Creedmoor to have any opportunity whatsoever to discharge sewage effluent
into the Tar River at Cannady Mill Bridge, a permanently retired (December 2004) discharge of effluent into the Tar River by National Spinning in Washington, N.C., was mysteriously resurrected and moved 100 miles upstream.

No discussion. It just “happened”.

Something Stinks in the Tar-Pamlico Basin Association and maybe in the North Carolina Environmental Affairs Committee (The Mayor himself was a member when this deal went down.) And everybody knows…

Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

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Tar Wars!

8/15/2013

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Darryl Vader - The Farce Be With You!

Lots of folks here in Granville County are opposed to the unnecessary, environmentally destructive, and financially insane sewage plant The ‘Ommissioners want to build on Hester Road.

Chris Crowder and his family live near the site. Here’s what he thinks about it. Ran in Monday’s Oxford Ledger.

Another reason...

Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

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Before It's Too Late... SavetheTar

8/14/2013

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Wilton Slopes Park

Everyone may need a reminder that there is a whole lot more bad news about this sewage plant than the financial disaster it will be for the citizens of Creedmoor and southern Granville County.

It’s also going to cause permanent, irreversible environmental destruction to the Wilton Slopes area of the Tar River.

Marshall Floyd, who lives on Fishing Creek, wrote an excellent letter to USDA RD from someone who knows the river and loves it.

Please, read that comment here.

One more reason...

Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

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Well Well Well

7/10/2013

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Don't know where the Creedmoor Commissioners came from, but EVERYBODY else knows the "First Commandment of Water Quality" is.....

"Don't build your outhouse over your well!"

That's exactly what the Creedmoor Commissioners want to do with their proposed, environmentally wrongheaded sewage plant. And that's what's "on tap" for you, if you don't speak up now!


              Since The Commissioners don't seem to get it, you could tell them...

                                          Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

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Another "Coverup" !

7/7/2013

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The scent of Lilac

Everyone loves the scent of Lilacs!
A wonderful powerful fragrance!

Pee-yew!!

But do you really want your home, your car, your clothes, your kids to smell like that year-round?

Downwind from the proposed sewage plant? As most of southern Granville County is....

Get use to a little Creedmoor "air freshener"!

But it still won't hide the fact that

Something Stinks in Creedmoor

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Unalienable Rights

7/3/2013

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There are 3 regular meetings next week of our county governments.

The Creedmoor City Commissioners have a work session Monday at 5:30 in Creedmoor in the Commissioners Room at City Hall. At a work session, the public is not allowed to speak, but believe me, The Commissioners will notice if the room is full! The Creedmoor Commissioners cancelled their last meeting, the regular one where they DO take comments from the public.

Granville County Commissioners meet Monday July 8 at 7 PM. Granville County Commissioners meet in the auditorium of the Granville Expo and Convention Center, 4185 US Highway 15 South, Oxford.

South Granville Water and Sewer Authority (SGWASA) meets next Tuesday, July 9 at 6 PM in the Town of Butner Council Chambers at 415 Central Ave, Butner.

If you haven’t looked at the page on the website about your representatives, please do. It lists all the people who serve you here in Granville County. Some of these folks are your neighbors, or go to church with you. All of them have dedicated a VERY large portion of their time to this most important Duty of making sure local government runs well. That does not mean, however, that they don’t get off track, as Creedmoor has clearly done with this sewage plant.!!!

The Creedmoor Commissioners are making an extremely expensive and harmful mistake—financially and environmentally for ALL the people in Granville County. We need to be sure they understand the magnitude of the error they are making. We, as the people of this county, also have a duty and obligation to help them get back on the right track!

I hope you will consider getting involved because:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Happy Fourth of July!!

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ERC Meeting of NC State Legislature Oct 9

"Curiousier and Curiousier!"

Tar Wars!

Before It's Too Late... SavetheTar

Well Well Well

Another "Coverup" !

Unalienable Rights

Something Stinks

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