HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1634 (2)be. This is from my house. It is 291 feet to the building of the proposed location. This is the distance
between my driveway and the existing driveway that's there. Itis 90 feet from my outbuilding to the facility
now From myguest house, where my mother-in-law lives, it is 182 feet from her front door. It is 192 feet
from the driveway to her front door. A special -use permit, on item #4, says 'The special use will not
substantially injure the value of adjoining or abutting property or that the use is a public necessity.' You think
with a diesel fuel plant in my backyard that I'mgoinq to be able to sell my house for its appraised value'
There's the appraisal right there. My house is appraised at $220,000 If thisplant were toga in, do you think
I could sell it for that? We moved there to be in the country-- not an industrio/ park These are just some
pictures to show you what Snow Creek Road looks like from one end to the other. They (structures) area//
houses on Snow Creek Rood. I don't see a single manufacturing facility on Snow Creek Road. Also we have a
pond across the street (Ineudible part) runoff to eventually wind up in the Catawba River -- eventually.
There's the sign for the school bus stop ahead but after you go over the hill you couldn't even see the bus over
there. That's just the proposed location. There's the building the equipment is in. And there's the Mctairs
(home) Would they like it beside their house?
Jay M. Roiley (an behalf of McLain family): ram a registered professional engineer in the State of /Uorth
Carolina, and the owner of an engineering company that specializes in process engineering of these types of
facilities The facility will use various materials as outlined in your packet The material safety data
information is enclosed Icon assure the county commissioners that these types of facilities are designed to
intrinsically safe conditions as dictated by the Alationa/ fere Prevention Association and Alationa/ Electrical
Cade. There will be several construction permits required to do anything like this and as apart of the normal
approval process your local fire marshal and local building inspection office will have final interpretation of any
such regulations We've designed these types of operations to notiona/giodelines. Final approval is local
building inspection dictated
Patrick &Wan (an behalf of McLain family) Im Patrick brogan and IM a representative of the hbrth
Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Im a one-stop permit coordinator. I've been
working with Mr McLain since the spring on all environmental permits that will be needed. Based on the
calculations from his consultant engineers he will be below the minimum requirements for the air quality permits
for the state. You do not need an air quality permit until youget over five tons of pollutants and he is well
below that. All the tanks will be required to have spill prevention counter control measures which is the dykes
that you are hearing about which will contain the volume of that tank if it were completely full and had a
complete eruption .......... which all of the liquid would spill out. They are required to have that containment.
We've gone through all the other environmental permits through the state, and as I'm getting new information,
if permits will come up, he will be required and regulated through the state to get those before production has
started.
Randy Dellinger (on behalf of McLain family): My name is Randy Dellinger. It is a pleasure to be here. I am
a managing partner in Foothills Bio -Energies, which is a biodiese/ production facility in Caldwell County Im
hereto speak tonight about the esthetics of a biodiesel production facility. In terms of a chemical processing
facility, it falls fairly low on a totem pole in terms of hazardous materials and so forth So if its constructed
within the electrical, and fire marshal codes and so forth, they are fairly benign plants to operate and maintain.
There are some concerns. He is working with a venygood engineering and design farm, and I'm sure that they'll
take all those things inconsideration My doors are open for any of you guys to come visit and get a tour of our
plant. I have anther engagement that I have to beat shortly tonight, but feel free to contact me. My
contact information is available in the packet or through Phil. I know the gentlemen, or the design firm working
with Phil, and I can speak highly to their credentials.
ON Pitt (opponent): My wife and I own the land directly across Snow Creek Road from the proposed rezoning
site, and I certainly appreciate the opportunity to appear before you and make the case for not approving the
zoning change from R-20 to conditional use heavy manufacturing. It must be said that renewable fuels in
general need to be apart of our country's future energy plans and biodiese/ fuel should be a port of that
future. But the materials and processes used in the production of biodiese/ and the waste productsgenerated
as a result of the biodiese/ reaction makes the proposed site unsuitable. The process itself is called
transesterification, and in its rendered animal fat or soy or canola oil is mixed with an alcohol, typically
methanol in the presence of a catalyst, typically lye, or potassium hydroxide. The mixture is heated to
approximately 140 degrees and stirred for two hours A chemical reaction takes place producingglycerin and
biodiese/ After the chemical reaction, the biodiesel is submitted to a wash step in which water in the amount
of 50 to 100% of the biodiese/ volume is added, gently agitated, then the mixture is allowed to settle ..... so it
can separate from the fuel taking leftover methanol and lye with it. The intended volumes of the petitioner's
plant at six million gallons per annum would require roughly 24,0009allons per day output on a 250 day workinq
year and approximately 2800gallons of methanol and approximately 240gallons of /ye input. If lye is the
catalyst, 50% more methanol then the formula rote calls for is used to achieve a high rate of conversion of the
oil to biodiese! If potassium hydroxide is used as the catalyst, 100% more methanol is used. Any of these
capacities will require tanker truckloads and lots of methanol, multiple drum load deliveries of lye or potassium
hydroxide and safe storage of them as well as suitable and substantial storage capabilities for in processed
biodiese/, finished biodiese/, biodiese/ wash water, and glycerin While you consider the chollenges of safely
transporting, storing and handling these volumes of materials at this site, and specially, in view of the fact that