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PARKER: Like I said earlier, the Mooresville office is basically asked that we could recommend -
approval of the project provided that the technical service people has ascertained whether the water
can be assimilated properly in the lake. We've also asked that the company meet all necessary
buffer requirements and other guidelines that are specified in our administrative code with regards
to other occupied dwellings, (not clear), and what have you, and obviously prior to issuance of any
authorization, building or expanded facilities, they would have to be issued guidelines. And that's
basically (not clear) standpoint.
POPE: Are there questions of Mr. Parker from the commissioners?
HEDRICK: My question, Mr. Parker, would be, that does your agency, your particular office,
become involved in permitting discharges into the lake, i know in addition to Iredell County,
certainly Mecklenburg and maybe Lincoln County also?
PARKER: Lincoln and Catawba.
HEDRICK: Catawba also? So all of the shoreline neighbors have to go through your office.
PARKER: Right.
HEDRICK: Do you have any idea how many systems are now discharging into Lake Norman from, say,
the Catawba area?
PARKER: Well, as he's indicated, these are done by counties, obviously, and there are three of
us engineers that work in the office that issue permits for these facilities, and I personally do
not work on everyone that comes into Lake Norman. The number that he's given us is twelve, would
probably be a figure that I would feel comfortable with. There are other discharges in other
counties. When he says there are twelve models on Lake Norman, that can very easily be Lincoln,
Catawba, Mecklenburg, also. That's not just in Iredell County, no.
HEDRICK: Some of those are, in fact, state-owned, are they? Like the rest area discharge?
The one down at I-77?
PARKER: Yes, DOT maintains that, that's correct.
HEDRICK: That's the only questions I have.
POPE: Any other questions from any of the commissioners?
Any questions of Mr. Parker by the proponents, Crosland?
MASSEY: Mr. Pope, I would rather Mr. Stewart ask the questions. Let one technical man talk to
another, if you don't mind.
POPE: That's fine.
STEWART: This is a question of clarification. In reference to the Division of Human Resources
regulations, relative to non -discharge subsurface disposal. In the respect if we had the operation
by a private utility company, under state regulations, at this time, does that then come back under
your division's supervision and monitoring?
PARKER: Yes, if it is under a private utility.
STEWART: O.K. I just wanted to clarify that. In the respect that in this particular project,
the proposal is that the facility, both water and sewer, be owned by a private utility company,
owned and operated, and the regulations that would govern that are really the Division of
Environmental Management's regulations, not the Division of Human Resources.
POPE: Any other questions?
SCOTT: I don't necessarily have any questions, but I would like to make a couple of points
relative to his statements.
POPE: Mr. Scott, you were sworn previously, as were the other people who offered testimony,
you accept Mr. Parker, and we are acting on the assumption that all of the testimony is under oath,
that persons are previously sworn are still sworn.
SCOTT: As early as 8:30 this morning, I spoke with the supervisor of engineering and permits
for the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources. His name is Arthur Mowberry; he's a P.E.
with the state, and he had indicated that the state is in a position to issue a permit on this
particular project, so I want the board, your board to know, that this is new news to us as well.
It's something that we did not know about until now. But no matter what the case, we are going to
comply with the State's requirements, whatever they might be, and we would like for you to realize
that that particular issue, and this treatment plant is not specifically a matter relating to this
rezoning. We're talking about land use here, and we will comply with whatever the States says as
far as the discharge of the sewage treatment plant. We would like for you to consider based on that
and not make this an issue of sewer treatment.
POPE: Thank you. Any other questions from the proponents of Mr. Parker?
Any questions of the opponents? I