REASONS PEOPLE SHOULD OPPOSE THE PRISON ON THE NEW RIVER

This is the wrong site for a prison

• The proposed site is on the New River one of 14 American Heritage Rivers.
• The site is in the middle of land that is protected from development through conservation easements or is in the process of being protected.
• The site will require millions of dollars of public tax money (our tax dollars) to be spent on building a bridge across the New River, roads, water and sewer - all which will benefit a private developer. This is corporate welfare at its worst.
• The site will require the condemnation and taking of private land for road, bridge and utility easements to the prison. Land that has been owned by your neighbors for generations.
• The site is directly across the river from a Boy Scout Camp. If a bridge is built across the river, it will most likely be at the entrance of the Boy Scout Camp.
• The site is part of an area where three state governments and two federal agencies are working to establish the New River Blueway that begins at Cox's Chapel.
• Lt. Governor Tim Kaine has already dedicated land in this area for a Virginia DCR canoe campground.
• The site is not consistent with Grayson County's Comprehensive Plan.

Bad for the Environment

• One of the options in the CCS proposal provides for an on-site sewage treatment plant that would discharge thousands of gallons of treated prison sewage into the New River every day.
• The lighting, traffic and noise generated from the proposed prison will destroy the nesting and breeding habitat of a number of rare birds that are just now making a comeback including the Golden Eagle and the American Bald Eagle.
• A bridge across the river just to support the prison will be a visual scar to one of the most beautiful sections of the river and will serve only the private developer of this prison.