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BRYAN: We also have with us today an adjoining property owner to Crosland project who was not
here before. i don't, know if she would like to say anything. She wasn't sworn before.
POPE: We'll hear her if she wants to testify. We'll hear Mr. Parker first.
HEDRICK: We need to have him sworn.
Let the record also show that those who have spoken so far were previously sworn.
CLERK TO THE BOARD ADMINISTERED OATH TO Mr. Michael Leslie Parker.
POPE: Mr. Parker, would you identify yourself? Give your name, address and your position?
PARKER: My name is Michael Parker. I live in Mooresville, NC, I work with the N. C. Depart-
ment of Natural Resources and Community Development as an Environmental Engineer in the Mooresville
Regional Office.
POPE: As an environmental engineer, what do you do?
PARKER: I work on the issuance, site investigations, working specifically on issuing EPES
discharge permits and some non -discharge permits.
POPE: Do you have a published criteria for determining whether or not you will issue a permit?
PARKER: Yes, sir.
POPE: What, are those criteria?
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PARKER: They are issued under the N. C. Administrative Code as our guidelines and regulations
for issuance of a permit.
POPE: Do you have familiarity with the discharge permit known as the Castaway Shores
discharge?
PARKER: Yes, sir. I have considerable amount of familiarity with it; however, let me inter-
ject when the permit was originally issued, the individual that issued the original permit for that
facility is no longer with our Mooresville office. My familiarity stems from primarily the recent
proposal from John Crosland to expand the treatment plant, and so that's where my involvement and
familiarity has begun.
POPE: Now long have you been employed in the Mooresville branch?
PARKER: Approximately seven and one-half years.
POPE: Are you aware of any problems with the existing discharge?
PARKER: As the plant stands right now?
POPE: Yes.
PARKER: No, sir.
POPE: As far as you know, then, in your professional opinion, the existing discharge functions
adequately.
PARKER: Yes, as far as information we have right now. Yes.
POPE: What monitoring is done by your office or by any other state or federal agency, to your
knowledge?
PARKER: At our regional office we have some (Not clear) analysts which do periodically or
routinely go out and take samples from the treatment plants that are located in our region. I do
not know the sampling schedule or how frequently these samples are obtained from this particular
facility, but I do know on periodic basis samples are obtained.
POPE: Where are they obtained? At the plant or the discharge point?
PARKER: They are taken at the effluent, not where it goes into the lake, It is taken at the
water after it has been treated by the plant but not at the end of the pipe which obviously you
can't reach the end of the pipe.
POPE: Do you know with what frequency that is done?
PARKER: No, sir. I sure don't. Those people work in a somewhat different area, and I'm not
familiar with their schedule.
POPE: You had occasion to investigate the application for an enlarged discharge permit, or a
new discharge permit, as it may be called by the John Crosland Company. Would you tell us what you
found?
PARKER: Their basic proposal was to expand the treatment plant from approximately 10,000