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Letter: Stop the PennEast pipeline

ISSUE | WATER QUALITY Stop the pipeline The PennEast Pipeline Co. has applied for a water permit from the Delaware River Basin Commission that would allow its destructive pipeline to run through the region. According to the application, the company plans to discharge or withdraw more than 45 million gallons of water.

ISSUE | WATER QUALITY

Stop the pipeline

The PennEast Pipeline Co. has applied for a water permit from the Delaware River Basin Commission that would allow its destructive pipeline to run through the region. According to the application, the company plans to discharge or withdraw more than 45 million gallons of water.

The 110-mile pipeline would cut through the Delaware River valley, beginning in Pennsylvania and crossing the river and 87 other waterways, including protected waters, into Hopewell Township, N.J. The application process could take up to a year, and, if rejected, the DRBC could help stop the pipeline.

The permit would allow hydrostatic testing and horizontal directional drilling. That is a method of boring to install pipe beneath bodies of water, roads, or environmentally sensitive areas.

Siltation and runoff from the pipeline would destroy high-quality streams and impact the water supply for 7 million people. The DRBC needs to protect the river basin and the people who rely on it for drinking water by denying PennEast's application.

|Jeff Tittel, director, N.J. Sierra Club, Trenton