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POPE: Are you asking whether there will be another opportunity today?
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BRYAN: Yes.
POPE: The rules provide that the opponents would give the closing statement first, and the
proponents or the petitioners would give the last closing statement, that's apparently because they
have the burden of proof to get the last bite at the cherry.
BRYAN: Is that the stage we are at now?
POPE: I'm trying to determine whether there is any more evidence before I determine that.
(Changing to Tape N3)
Is there further testimony from the opponents?
BRYAN: Yes, sir.
CLERK SWEARS ELLAR HICKS AS OPPONENT.
MASSEY: Mr. Pope, again we, the proponents, do think this hearing has got to stop somewhere in
time. This was properly advertised last time. All people who were to speak against the project
were to be at the hearing according to your rules, otherwise they were not allowed to speak.
POPE: I will allow this lady to speak just briefly.
MASSEY: We would make that objection for the record.
POPE: All right.
HICKS: My name is Ellar Hicks and I am a member of Fairview United Methodist Church, and we
have a church parsonage adjacent to the property that is being rezoned, and that parsonage is also
adjacent to Knox's property which is been located on the map. We're not opposed to rezoning the
area beside the parsonage. We're just opposed to what we've heard, you know, the way they are going
to dispose of the waste, that's what we're concerned about. So we're not opposing the rezoning, it
is just the treatment of the waste, and how they are going to dispose of that.
POPE: All right, ma'am, are you aware that they propose to use a package treatment plant to
dispose of the waste?
HICKS: Yes.
POPE: And is that your opposition to that?
HICKS: Yes. I'm opposed to package plants, period. I feel like anything that is polluting
Lake Norman, now that is polluting, because Lake Norman is not all free-flowing lake. It's got a
lot of areas backed up. It's just standing water, and it's not, eventually down the road, it's
going to be a problem, we see it.
POPE: Are you aware of any problems at the present time?
HICKS: Not in a sense that I can evaluate it. It's murky a lot, you know, in a lot of areas,
especially the parts in the areas that are backed up. It's not getting free flow. I have children
that go out on the lake, and it's already
POPE: Mrs. Hicks, is the area where they propose to discharge this effluent one of the areas
where you've seen that it's been red and murky?
HICKS: Yes.
POPE: What frequency have you seen that?
HICKS: Mostly during the summer when we're there (not clear) I don't see it then, but during
the summer months.
POPE: Did you see it in the summer of 1987?
HICKS: Yes.
POPE: You're not saying, are you, that the redness and the murkiness of the water was related
to the discharge from Castaway Shores, or are you/
HICKS: No, I can't, because I wouldn't have a way of analyzing this.
POPE: Does anybody have any questions of Mrs. Hicks?
MURDOCK: Do you live there or are you just there in the summer time?
HICKS: I live on Shearers Chapel Road, which is not on the lake, but I am speaking in behalf
of the church property.