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<br />(10) Lee County's unique geography and minimal separation between shale formations and
<br />groundwater supplies puts well water users disproportionately at risk of groundwater supply
<br />contamination; and,
<br />(11) Within 258 square miles, Lee County is home to two active quarry operations and will soon
<br />house up to eight million tons of coal ash in a lined structural fill project per the Coal Ash
<br />Management Act; and,
<br />(12) The Gulf Fault, the Crawley Creek Fault, the Deep River Fault, and the Governors Creek
<br />Fault run through Triassic Basin in Lee County, and hydraulic, fracturing has been associated with
<br />increased seismic activity; and,
<br />(13) Lee County's local roadway infrastructure is cuxrentlybject to minimal traffic, consisting
<br />mostly of private cars, light trucks, and agricultural vehicles",/-, rid oil and gas development will
<br />greatly increase traffic by both private and large commercial ve es, which, in turn, will greatly
<br />increase wear -and -tear on local infrastructure:, resulting in increased-,pepair and maintenance
<br />needs; and,
<br />(14) Lee County will incur increased costs for services, including emergency`se vices, increased
<br />policing and other social service; nd compliance monitoring, as a direct resbf oil and gas
<br />development activities; and,
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<br />(15) The hazardous materials used dbring oil JhdZas development and the potential for
<br />operational accidents will require existing emefJOO/ y response providers to acquire additional
<br />training and to respon "to -additional e"n nor lls, and,
<br />(16) Lee County snot afford fo provide ad tional funding for such increased costs; and,
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<br />(17, ate stattltesitd regulatory proems for oil and gas development do not yet
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<br />c t man ag Rent prac"tic nece§gary to adequately ensure such activities will
<br />negatively i the air", -"'*1 water, environment, and health of residents within Lee
<br />ty, and therefo" not ad"uately protect the health and welfare of the County's
<br />resits because thet address oil or gas development's locality -specific effects on the
<br />uniraI, geologic, ographic, social, financial, and other conditions that exist within
<br />Lee Counfoundaries,;,
<br />(18) Significant 60-10, ion aI, community, and human health impacts have resulted from
<br />commercial oil and�welopment in other states; and,
<br />(19) The full extent of such impacts and the anticipated impacts in North Carolina and,
<br />specifically, in Lee County have not yet been determined; and,
<br />(20) For the reasons stated herein, including other, unenumerated reasons, the extraction of oil
<br />or gas in Lee County poses a significant threat to the health, safety, and welfare of residents,
<br />neighborhoods, the environment, and natural features; and,
<br />(21) The Board finds it necessary to provide for additional time to study the impact of fracking
<br />and other oil and gas development activities that have been experienced in other states and to
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