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Ken Latham, Eugene, stated he has been a Delta employee for 11 years. He thinks Delta <br />has gone out of its way to be a good neighbor. He said the company practices good <br />stewardship of all of its materials and it supplies the needs of the community. He <br />commented that aggregate is the life stream of the infrastructure. He said without having <br />the rock they wouldn’t be able to build roads. He thought if they shut down or limit <br />Delta’s resources, then through supply and demand the prices will go up. <br /> <br /> Kate Pearly, Eugene, stated she is a farmer in Santa Clara and is an agricultural educator <br />in the community. She commented that without food no human could move a machine <br />and without food no one could live. She stated the soils on the site are made up of four <br />different soil types. She said the assertion that their site was unsuitable for agricultural <br />was false. She thought they should look at the land for long term production of food, not <br />just its current neighbor. <br /> <br /> Richard Ruth, Eugene, said he is an environmental consultant. He said he had been <br />listening to the testimony about the dust issue. He thought it was overridden by <br />sensationalism. He noted it was the same crusher and the same location with the same <br />limits by LRAPA. He thought the issue of health and dust didn’t make sense because <br />what they currently have is what they are going to have in the future. He indicated the <br />Mine Safety Health Administration regularly monitors the operation for dust and there <br />had never been a violation for dust issues. With regard to modeling, he said Delta took <br />into account testimony and concern about whether modeling should be done. He said <br />there wasn’t a lot of dust to be able to model. He indicated that LRAPA did a model and <br />it was submitted into the record on November 1, 2006 and they modeled all the haul <br />roads in the operation for expansion and LRAPA concluded that the modeled impacts <br />from each haul road added to the ambient monitored concentrations is below the PM 10 <br />National Ambient Air Quality Standards. He said showed Delta Sand and Gravel met the <br />standards. <br /> <br /> Sue Palmer Boyd, stated she worked at Delta Sand and Gravel for 18 years. She planned <br />her retirement around Delta and didn’t want to start over. She commented that this was a <br />good location with competitive prices and it was good for the economy. She asked the <br />elected official to approve the expansion. <br /> <br /> Sorenson asked Christenson about aspects of the groundwater wherein the Lane County <br />Planning Commission determined that the impacts involving groundwater could not be <br />minimized to acceptable levels. He asked about that finding. <br /> <br /> Christenson responded that it was his understanding that they were concerned about the <br />hydraulic barrier they had built into the ground, that it would cause flooding. He said it is <br />hydralogically impossible for the groundwater barrier in the ground to cause flooding at <br />the surface of the ground. He said the only way they would have surface flooding is <br />when there is a surface water flood. <br /> <br /> Pape asked what they could grandfather, or what they could take with regard to dust, <br />noise and groundwater and transportation impacts. <br />Page 13 – Joint Elected Officials' Meeting – December 12, 2006 <br />WD bc/m/06121/T <br /> <br />