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HEDRICK: Does any board member have a question': D^cs rnyone fron the audience have
a comment vtith regard to this particular request?
WOMAN: What happens to the Drano and stuff like that?
LEWIS: Well, the number of gallons of effluent in there would have some effect on
how diluted it would become before it gets out the other end. However, the Drano is
phosphae, I believe, and I don't really know what's in Drano, so you're getting me into a
field I can't answer, Jane. But do you use Drano in your regular system at home?
JANE: (Not clear)
LEWIS: What happens to it there?
JANE: It goes underground. (not clear)
LEWIS: It gets lost and builds up in your stone bed in your nitrification fleld.
In a sewage treatment plant, I'm sure it gets to the other end, but there's going to be
some solids that are going to percipitate out and be carried out by the operator when he
comes in to perform maintenance on the plant. However, what's not percipitating out is
going to get out. What the condition of it is, it has to be cleaner than the stream right
now or it would have to be changed. In other words . . . (not clear)
HEDRICK: Anybody else have a question?
BRYAN: I don't have a question, but I think the same criteria is with him as with
Heronwood. I really feel very strongly, I've said it before, I really think that Iredell
County should not allow multi -family dwellings on the lake until they have a sewer system
to take care of it. (not clear) . . I really think we are going to greatly increase the
pollution of the lake t,y allowino people ti pump effluents into the lake. Now, this man
obviously has the approval and he is perking and everything is fine. I would urge you to
disapprove any systems that would allow mechanical systems to dump in the lake. Mallard
Head doesn't dump in the lake?
LEWIS: No, it eventually goes to the lake. Everything goes to the lake. But it's
probably 600 to 700 or 1,000 to 1,100 feet to Lake Norman 760 water line. Like I said if
you are traveling any stream which has certain characteristics, a. stream has certain
characteristics, however the effluent going into the streatm is going to be, from a health
standpoint, cleaner than the stream is there, that may sound strange, but that's the
design we are required to design.
HEDRICK: Carroll.
WEBER: I would just make a comment that (not clear) . a county sewer system or
one designed, it has the same problems that a plant does. !that do you do with the
effluent from a county system. It would most likely go into Lake Norman, that's the only
place you can put it unless there's a creek out here. That's where the City of
Statesville gees, I imagine a creek, does it not?
HEDRICK: In a creek.
WEBER: You've got to do something with it. You just can't haul it around in
._,. buckets. You've got to dispose of it somewhere, somehow. It's there; it's going to be
there as long as the world stands. Somewhere, somehow. But I don't believe a county
sewer system would change any problems at all. You're just going to have a greater and
larger flow.
WALSER: I do believe that this Davidson Landing, which the treatment is by Davidson,
is treated by Davidson, but it is brought back into the lake, if I'm not mistaken.
MILLS: I think it's carried South to the treatment facilities. It's Mecklenburg
County's treatment. And they would not allow development of the Davidson Landing until
that was, that's what held them up for I think eight years, was having to wait until the
sewer system was extended there.
WEBER: (not clear) . . . finally empties into the Catawba River.
MILLS: And I don't know where that treatment facility is, I think it's in Cornelius,
down below Cornelius. But Davidson does have a treatment facility, but I don't think that
that particular development empties into it. I think it goes back down the interstate and
goes over to Cornelius.
HEDRICK: Any other questions, comments?
Thank you, Duane.
As someone commented earlier, I think I heard, if not, I'll express my opinion, that
is that we're inheriting a couple of problems tonight th,t have taken place with a lot of
emotion prior to tonight. I think the vote, :.t least with regard to Heronwood, was