[Durham INC] Fw: Urgent -Jordan Lake -- by 5 PM today (Mon, April 4)

[Mike Woodard]

I respectfully disagree with Melissa's assessment of the status of 
the rules ("watered down"; great pun, Melissa) and ask that you 
review the City's website that presents more balance to this 
discussion, outlines the City's position (a far more responsible 
position than that being presented by some environmental groups), and 
discusses some of the implications for Durham taxpayers if all of the 
rules are implemented.
http://durhamnc.gov/departments/wm/jordan_lake_rules.cfm

I attended a dinner with Speaker Hackney Saturday and was surprised 
to learn how little information he has received about the potential 
costs to taxpayers.

I also talked with two elected officials from Orange County 
governments yesterday, and I was pleased to learn from them how much 
support there is for Durham's position in other local governments all 
along the Jordan watershed.

Before you contact your legislators, please read more about this 
issue and make up your own mind. This issue requires clear minds and 
steady hands, not jerking knees.

Mike Woodard
Durham City Council

At 10:36 AM 5/4/2009, Melissa Rooney wrote:
>Please see below. And please take the time to write your reps (all 
>email addresses below). The Jordan Lake Rules have already been 
>watered down significantly. Please help stop additional loopholes 
>from being put in -- it's long past due to have REAL rules to 
>protect our water.
>
>And keep in mind that Jordan Lake Rules set the stage for rules for 
>other bodies of water in NC...we don't want to start with weak, 
>meaningless regulations.
>
>Thanks!
>Melissa
>
>
>--- On Sun, 5/3/09, Haw River Assembly <info at hawriver.org> wrote:
>
>From: Haw River Assembly <info at hawriver.org>
>Subject: Urgent -Jordan Lake
>To: mmr121570 at yahoo.com
>Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009, 4:38 PM
>
>URGENT ACTION NEEDED (please excuse us if you received a similar 
>message earlier)
>ASK YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE TO PROTECT JORDAN LAKE
>
>The Jordan Lake rules are now before the House Environment and 
>Natural Resources Committee and opponents of the rules (led by 
>Durham and Greenboro) have placed a "Proposed Committee 
>Substitute"  (PCS) for H239 before the Committee that will really 
>weaken the chances of cleaning up Jordan Lake. The existing 
>development rule could become a rule in name only if we don't get 
>some teeth back into it.
>
>The Haw River Assembly believes that the substitute bill (PCS) does 
>not have adequate measures to restore water quality in Jordan Lake. 
>The PCS greatly delays the start of efforts to control pollution 
>from existing development, and dangles the possibility, through cost 
>benefit analysis, of walking away and giving up before the lake 
>complies with water quality standards. The current substitute bill 
>could allow a water quality variance for the Upper New Hope Arm if 
>it does not seem "feasible" to meet the nitrogen target by 2025. In 
>reality this could mean never fully cleaning it up. We do not think 
>that it is ever appropriate or perhaps even legal, under the Clean 
>Water Act, for that to be allowed in a water supply reservoir like 
>Jordan Lake.
>
>A Vote is expected on Tuesday by the Committee. Let members of the 
>House ENR Committee, sponsors of the bill and the Speaker of the 
>House know we need their help to get language in the substitute bill 
>H239 that will contain costs for the cities for reducing stormwater 
>pollution - but not by sacrificing water quality in Jordan Lake.
>
>Please send an email before 5 p.m. Monday, May 4.
>Send to the Representative for your district:
>Alamance: Alice 
>Bordsen 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Alice.Bordsen@ncleg.net>Alice.Bordsen at ncleg.net
>Orange: Verla Insko 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Verla.Insko@ncleg.net>Verla.Insko at ncleg.net 
>and Bill Faison 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Bill.Faison@ncleg.net>Bill.Faison at ncleg.net
>Greensboro: Pricey Harrison 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Pricey.Harrison@ncleg.net>Pricey.Harrison at ncleg.net
>Durham: Paul Luebke 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Paul.Luebke@ncleg.net>Paul.Luebke at ncleg.net
>Chatham: Joe Hackney 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Joe.Hackney@ncleg.net>Joe.Hackney at ncleg.net
>Wake:  Grier Martin 
><http://us.mc346.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Grier.Martin@ncleg.net>Grier.Martin at ncleg.net
>
>
>PLEASE DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE--AND THANK YOU FOR HELPING 
>PROTECT THE LAKE!
>
>Elaine Chiosso
>  Haw RIVERKEEPER
>  Haw River Assembly
>P.O.Box 187 Bynum NC 27228
>  (919) 542-5790
>www.hawriver.org
>
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