12/28/2018

The Honorable John Adams

District Attorney
Berks County
633 Court Street
5th Floor Services Center
Reading, Pennsylvania 19601

Dear District Attorney Adams,

As you are aware, Chester County’s District Attorney Tom Hogan announced recently that his office was
launching a criminal investigation into the Mariner East pipeline project. We, the undersigned residents of
Berks County, are writing to urge you to conduct an investigation into the Mariner East pipeline here.

On December 13, the Public Utilities Commission’s Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement filed a formal
complaint stemming from a leak of 20 barrels of ethane and propane from the Mariner East 1 pipeline near
Morgantown in April 2017.i The degree of corrosion found at the point of the leak has caused the Bureau to
question “SPLP’s corrosion control program and the soundness of SPLP’s engineering practices with respect
to cathodic protection” statewide.

On January 3, 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection temporarily suspended the
construction permits for the Mariner East 2 pipeline based, in part, on incidents during construction at four
sites in Berks County.ii “The work area for PPP-ME2 in Berks County, Pennsylvania includes the crossing
of an unnamed tributary ("UNT") to Hay Creek (S-Q90) in New Morgan Borough, Berks County ("Berks
HDD Site l"), the crossing of an unnamed tributary ("UNT") to Cacoosing Creek (S-C33) in Spring
Township, Berks County ("Berks HDD Site 2"), the crossing of an UNT to Allegheny Creek (S-B30) in
Brecknock Township, Berks County ("Berks HDD Site 3"), and a crossing of Wetland W35 in New
Morgan Borough and Caernarvon Township, Berks County ("Berks HDD Site 4"). Berks HDD Site 1,
Berks HDD Site 2, Berks HDD Site 3, and Berks HDD Site 4 are collectively referred to herein as ("Berks
HDD Sites 1-4"),” says the DEP’s order.

Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners performed unauthorized horizontal directional drilling, leading to

inadvertent returns, or drilling mud spills, that violated various sections of the Dam Safety and
Encroachments Act and the Clean Streams Law. In addition, the DEP noted that the company did not
report the spill in Hay Creek.

Since the suspension was lifted, the DEP has issued 55 notices of violation for Mariner East 2
construction, three of them for incidents in Berks County.

Neither the formal complaint filed by PUC I&E nor the notices of violation issued by the DEP cover
additional problems Berks County residents have had to deal with, like the company’s bullying behavior
District Attorney Hogan referenced in his announcement and the recent threat of mechanic’s liens.

We paid particular attention to Hogan’s statement on jurisdiction. After visiting some of the impacted
sites, he “then detailed District Attorney staff members to do the legal research to make sure that the DAO
had jurisdiction to investigate the pipelines and received an affirmative response.”
Hogan told the press, “We expected the state regulators and the governor to step in and assure the safety of
Pennsylvanians. They have not. So now the Chester County District Attorney’s Office will demand that every
aspect of these pipelines be conducted safely, or we will bring into play all of the tools of the criminal justice
system.”

The people of Berks County deserve the same protection. We have had no champions in Harrisburg, so we
turn to you to use your jurisdiction to provide long overdue protection to the people, property, and natural
resources of Berks County.

Respectfully,

Karen Feridun, Founder

Berks Gas Truth

Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper

Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Jim Keller West Reading

Elizabeth Cates Bern Township
Carol Anne Donohoe Maidencreek Township
Jane Palmer Wyomissing
Heather Nelson Douglassville
Adam Blumberg Reading
Valerie Berg Spring Township
Michael Shaw Kutztown
Diane Quick Birdsboro
Pamela Meyer-Middleton Fleetwood
Randy Gyory Kempton
Joseph Murray Reading
Susan Nazzaro Kutztown
Teresa A. Youtz Brecknock Township
Michael E. Youtz Brecknock Township
Richard Hybki Lower Heidelberg
Mary Jo Weishampel Wernersville
Susan Shaak St. Lawrence
Darree Sicher Albany Township
Joanne Kosloski South Heidelberg
Sharon Hajj Union Township
Charyn Ayoub Maxatawny Township
Laura Fake Womelsdorf
Walt Hug Robeson Township
Michele Reese Lower Alsace
Timothy Reese Lower Alsace
Richard Gardner Bernville
Elaine M. Swavely Muhlenberg Township
Louise Legun Blandon
Judith K Woodruff Maidencreek
Fred Fritch Mertztown
Keith Brintzenhoff Kutztown
Shana M Rose Lower Alsace Township
Dawn Heinbach Greenwich Township
Patti Rose Lower Alsace Twp
Corey Luigard Spring Township
Cheryl D. Knight Washington Township
Michael Morrill West Reading
John Knight Washington Township
Kate Kennedy Birdsboro
Sally Trump Womelsdorf
Kathi Ember Richmond Township
Brendan D. Strasser Kutztown
James A Frank Lower Alsace
Susan Gage Douglassville
Mahsa Kazempour Bernville
Kaili Soisson Spring Township
David Dewalt Mohnton
Kim Kleinsmith Maxatawny Township
Kelly Nansteel Maxatawny
Carol J. Mehler Bethel Township
Robyn Underwood Kutztown
David E McCartney Jr. Mohnton
Marci Ftey Exeter
Sharon Morrow Alsace Township
Arthur Naylor Wyomissing
Lois M. Anderson Douglassville
Nancy J. McNabb Cumru Township
Debra George Reading
John Lawlor Jr Womelsdorf
Maggie Cawley Muhlenberg Township
Patricia K Sacks Reading
Jamie L Mastronicola Caernarvon
Dina DeLong Reading
Mary D Mazzoni Douglassville
Jorge A. Blanco Laureldale
Lynn Zale Sinking Spring
Thomas Slovik Center
Cindy K. Tricoski Bechtelsville
Donna Bagenstose Leesport
Mary Wolfe Jefferson Township
Robert Wambold Reading
Beth M. Skrocki Muhlenberg Township
Cindy Murdough Robesonia
Leslie Franks Ruscombmanor Township
Janice Ux Boyertown
Ana Good Reading
Josephine Reinhardt Douglassville
Colleen C Fitzgerald Albany
Sandra L Britland Boyertown
Marie Erlandson Colebrookdale Township
Marissa Feliciano Reading
Barry Pounder Spring Township
Lester D. Care Robeson Township
Toynette Palmer Reading
Chris Jameson Sinking Spring
Xavier Care Reading
Lisa Care Reading
Kristina care Reading
Daniel Sauder Spring Township
Kathy Mayberry Lenhartsville
John Scott Rockland Township
Patricia M Brown Greenwich Township

Supporters from other locations:

Gail Neustadt Collier Township

Adrienne Morgado Newtown
Tom O'Keefe New York, NY
Margaret Quinn Exton, Chester County
Eileen P. Reed Newtown
Jerry Rivers Roosevelt, NY
Sharon and Park Furlong Feasterville, Bucks County
Lisa Meehan Monroe County
Nancy Harkins West Chester
EDWARD Cavey West Chester
James Sukeena Quakertown
Debra Orben Springfield
Kathy Fox Bethlehem
Kelly Alderfer Warrington
Steven F. Izzo York
Jackie Palmer, Food Scientist Northampton Township
Carrie Bachman Easton
Sarah Caspar Downingtown
Kathleen Krebs Pittsburgh
Martha Evans Elizabeth Township
Raymond R. Onyx West Chester
Grace Bergin Du Bois
Joan L Farb Newtown
Robin Hoy Wrightstown

iPennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement v. Sunoco

Pipeline, L.P. a/k/a Energy Transfer Partners, Docket No. C-2018-
http://www.puc.pa.gov/pcdocs/1598230.pdf

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Administrative Order, January 3, 2018

ii

http://files.dep.state.pa.us/ProgramIntegration/PA%20Pipeline%20Portal/MarinerEastII/OrderSuspending
ConstructionActivities010318.pdf