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(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) There is also a quarry operation currently going through the permitting process, and if such
<br />permits are issued, such operation will be the third rock quarry in Lee County.
<br />(13) 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 oil and gas development has been associated
<br />with increased seismic activity; and,
<br />(14) Lee County's local roadway infrastructure is currently subject to minimal traffic, consisting
<br />mostly of private cars, light trucks, and agricultural vehicles, and oil and gas development and
<br />increased mining will greatly increase traffic by both private and large commercial vehicles,
<br />which, in turn, will greatly increase wear -and -tear on local infrastructure, resulting in increased
<br />repair and maintenance needs; and,
<br />(15) Lee County will incur increased costs for services, including emergency services, increased
<br />policing and other social services, and compliance monitoring, as a direct result of oil and gas
<br />development activities and increased mining; and,
<br />(16) The hazardous materials used during oil and gas development and the potential for
<br />operational accidents will require existing emergency response providers to acquire additional
<br />training and to respond to additional emergency calls; and,
<br />(17) Lee County cannot afford to provide additional funding for such increased costs; and,
<br />(18) Existing state statutes and regulatory programs for oil and gas development do not yet
<br />constitute the best management practices necessary to adequately ensure such activities will
<br />not negatively impact the air, soil, water, environment, and health of residents within Lee
<br />County; and therefore do not adequately protect the health and welfare of the County's
<br />residents because they do not address oil or gas development's locality -specific effects on the
<br />unique natural, geologic, demographic, social, financial, and other conditions that exist within
<br />Lee County's boundaries; and,
<br />(19) Significant environmental, community, and human health impacts have resulted from
<br />commercial oil and gas development in other states; and,
<br />(20) 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 />(21) For the reasons stated herein, including other, unremunerated reasons, the extraction of oil
<br />or gas in Lee County and increased mining poses a significant threat to the health, safety, and
<br />welfare of residents, neighborhoods, the environment, and natural features; and,
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