Dear Mayor Meeker and Raleigh City Council Members,   
 I wanted to provide you this email which was circulated to me via
 Dan  Richter of the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, who has
 serious  concerns about impacts to Falls Lake from the Egypt Subdivision
 and Sierra  Subdivision (more importantly the rezoning that will allow them). 
It was  sent to Durham County Commissioner Becky Heron (who is opposed to this  rezoning). 
Please take a moment to read this short email below. I urge you  as leaders
 of Raleigh to speak out about your drinking water supply Falls  Lake and
 oppose this rezoning. Durham prohibits this type of density in  their
 drinking water supply. This will further degrade water quality in  Falls Lake,
 recently listed as impaired. There are things both the Durham  City Council 
and County Commissioners can require development projects in  this location
 to do that will minimize impacts to Falls Lake. They can  request that the
 developer not be allowed to buy down on their nitrogen,  rather meet the
 3.6 pounds per acre stormwater requirement. Require volume  control for stormwater. 
Durham now has this as a requirement to make sure  they release water over a
 minimum of 48 hours and to disperse concentrated  flow through sheet flow
 into the buffers (also require wider buffers). They  can also require the use 
of cisterns which helps control volume even though  the state does not recognize 
it as a stormwater devise. I really hope Durham  and the County will push for 
these improvements as these are very achievable  and now being done in other locations.


 There is an important meeting on June  2nd. We hope to get this decision continued
 as we did the first one to give  us time to work this out. I hope someone from Raleigh 
will attend and oppose  this rezoning. Please read below.    Thank Dean Naujoks  Upper Neuse Riverkeeper  Neuse River Foundation