Update as of 9/22/21: Chapel Hill Town Council voted unanimously to withdraw approval for all six proposed stormwater basins! They plan to create a working group which will evaluate alternative solutions for flood control within a 6 to 12 month timeframe. Thank you so much for coming together to make this happen--every comment, email, and signature (834 of them!) made a difference. For more information visit preservebookercreek.org.

Dear Chapel Hill Town Council Members,

Please save our town's forests by rejecting the Lower Booker Creek Subwatershed Study's six proposed stormwater drainage basins.

We do not support spending $19 million of taxpayer money to clearcut 45 acres of mature Chapel Hill forest without a clear cost/benefit analysis, environmental/ecological assessment, climate study, and community impact analysis.

We realize it is important to build our community's climate resilience capacity, but we should do so by following the best practices from the EPA stormwater administration.

WK Dickson's current proposal would result in acres of lost habitat for local wildlife, non-native plantings, holding ponds with increased mosquitoes, and local heat islands that raise our neighborhoods' temperatures by 10-20 degrees.

Our community requires a solution that reduces flooding while considering the broader ecological context of Booker Creek and Chapel Hill.

Signed,

(To be submitted to Chapel Hill Town Council and become part of public record)

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