WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP 1. Submit Written Comments to DEQ You can submit written comments to DEQ until July 17, 2020. Submit your comments now. 2. Contact Public Officials Local public officials have the power to stop the quarry and the fence. We have provided some sample emails/letters here. You can email or mail your letters to the elected officials asking for the 50-year Sunset Clause to be reinstated and to deny the new mining permit for the Odd Fellows Tract. Raleigh City Council: CityCouncilMembers@raleighnc.gov

Wake County Commissioners: commissioners@wakegov.com

Durham City Council: council@durhamnc.gov

Durham County Commissioners: commissioners@dconc.gov

Cary Town Council: town.council@townofcary.org

Morrisville Town Council : TownCouncil@townofmorrisville.org

Congressman David Price: Contact form

Governor Roy Cooper: Contact form or contactgov@nc.gov NC Office of the Governor 20301 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-0301 3. Contribute We are working alongside residents, other non-profits and community groups to protect this land for all residents of the Triangle and for our future generations. GoFundMe Fundraiser: Help support our legal fees for fighting Wake Stone Corporation & RDU by contributing to our GoFundMe fundraiser.

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Our volunteers help us in many ways from event planning to social media. It doesn't have to be a big time commitment, we welcome any and all help! If you're interested in volunteering, please email us at: info@umsteadcoalition.org 5. Connect Change.org petition: Join over 22,000 other supporters and sign our Change.org petition.

Facebook: We have an engaged community on Facebook. 6. Stay in the Know Subscribe to our emails to stay up-to-date. QUICK overview The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority (RDUAA) signed a “mineral lease” to Wake Stone Corporation, a private rock quarry company, on March 1, 2019 with 48 hour public notice. The contract to sell mineral property would allow Wake Stone to create a new rock quarry pit within a 105 acre tract adjacent to William B. Umstead State Park and Old Reedy Creek Road. The tract is referred to as the “Odd Fellows Tract.” Four local governments own the Odd Fellows Tract The Odd Fellows Tract is publicly-owned and deeded to the Cities of Raleigh and Durham and the Counties of Wake and Durham. The NC legislation that establishes the RDUAA identifies the “owning municipalities” of the RDU Airport to be the Cities of Raleigh and Durham and the Counties of Wake and Durham. This would create a new 400 plus foot deep quarry pit on the west side of Crabtree Creek. It's a sale, not a lease The RDU “mineral lease” is a lease in name only. It is a contract with the sole purpose of allowing Wake Stone Corporation, a private business, to remove and sell public property (soil, rock) on the open market. The mineral rights would be conveyed from the public owners of the land to a private rock quarry company to sell. Permanent removal of the forest, top soil, and rock would occur — truck load by truck load. It is estimated the quarry operations would generate 500 truckloads a day! It is not comparable to a land lease for a hotel or gas station as neither sell government property as a business model. In a normal land lease, the property is returned to the Landlord at the end of the term and can be used for another purpose. In this case, the only thing which will be returned is a liability, a large pit with net negative value. It will not be able to be reused. This pit will be very dangerous with steep slopes, and will require a fence to keep everyone out. Watch our interview with The Triangle Talk Show from June 2020:

