Setting the Record Straight
In the opinion of the New Hill Community Association:
The most important reason one of the Progress Energy sites was not chosen is because Progress Energy wants to develop the excessive land taken from New Hill residents during the 1960s and 1970s. CP&L took this land in anticipation of building four nuclear reactors. CP&L used only half of the thousands of acres they forcible acquired to build one reactor. Rather than give the thousands of excess acres back to the people it was taken from, Progress Energy wants to develop that land as commercial, industrial and residential property.
In order to develop their thousands of surplus acres, Progress Energy will need a sewage plant and a place to discharge the effluent. One of the documents turned over to us clearly shows Cary and Progress Energy have been scheming behind the scenes to allow Progress Energy to utilize the new sewage plant.
An article written in the August 27, 2002 edition of The News and Observer documents Progress Energy’s intent to develop the land.
This was also documented in Meeting Summary Memorandum No. 15, Western Wake WRF Meeting with Progress Energy. A portion of the minutes follows:
Tom Trocheck, Progress Energy Tim Bailey, Town of Cary
Marty Clayton, Progress Energy Tommy Esqueda, DCM
Kim Fisher, Town of Cary Kelly Boone, CDM
Action Items
1) Progress Energy will provide Town of Cary with an estimated
amount of land to be developed and proposed land uses by
acreage for the area to be used in projecting wastewater flows
for the purpose of modeling Progress Energy’s additional Cape
Fear River discharge.
4) .... It is understood that Progress Energy may construct its own wastewater treatment facility and independent discharge or Progress Energy could share in the discharge structure and outfall to be constructed by the Western Wake Partners.
As if this was not enough, the Partners will be swapping or giving some of the property they condemned in New Hill to Progress Energy so they can get an access road.
Memorandum
To: Technical Advisory Committee
From: CDM/Hazen and Sawyer/CH2M HILL
Date: August 4, 2005
Subject: Western Wake Regional Wastewater Management Facilities
TAC Meeting Minutes – August 4, 2005
iii) Kim Fisher reported that during the July 18, 2005 meeting with Progress Energy, Progress Energy staff agreed to consider the Project Partners’request to swap the 18-acre triangle of land south of US 1 for land east of the WRF site to be used for the WRF site access road. Progress Energy advised the Project Partners to make a proposal on the land swap. Surveys and appraisals of the properties are being conducted.
It is the belief of the New Hill Community Association that: