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William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coleen Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
July 9, 2008
Granville County
DWQ Project No. 20081073
SR 1716
State Project No. 5B.203911
APPROVAL of 401 WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION and NEUSE BUFFER AUTHORIZATION, with
ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS
Mr. J.W. Bowman, P.E., Division Engineer
NCDOT, Division 5
2612 North Duke Street
Durham, NC 27704
Dear Mr. Bowman:
You have our approval, in accordance with the conditions listed below, for the following impacts for the purpose of
repair of SR 1716 crossing in Granville County:
Stream Impacts in the Neuse River Basin
Site Riprap to Perennial Stream
linear ft Temporary Dewatering to
Perennial Stream linear ft Total Stream Impact
linear ft
1 30 40 70
Total 30 40 70
Total Stream Impact for Project: 70 linear feet.
Neuse Riparian Buffer Impacts
Site Zone 1 minus = Zone 1 Zone 1 Buffer Zone 2 minus = Zone 2 Zone 2 Buffer
Impact Wetlands Buffers (not Mitigation Impact Wetlands Buffers Mitigation
(sq ft) in Zone 1 wetlands) Required (sq ft) in Zone 2 (not Required (using
(sq ft) (sq ft) (using 3:1 ratio) (sq ft) wetlands) 1.5:1 ratio)
s ft
1 3749 0 3749 N/A 0 0 0 0
Totals 3749 0 3749 0 0 0 0 0
* n/a = Total for Site is less than 1/3 acre and 150 linear feet of impact, no mitigation required
Total Buffer Impact for Project: 3,749 square feet.
The project shall be constructed in accordance with your application dated received July 9, 2008. After reviewing
your application, we have decided that these impacts are covered by General Water Quality Certification Numbers
3687 and 3689. This certification corresponds to the Nationwide Permit 3 and Nationwide Permit 13 issued by the
Corps of Engineers. This approval is also valid for the Neuse Riparian Buffer Rules (15A NCAC 2B.0233). In
addition, you should acquire any other federal, state or local permits before you proceed with your project including
(but not limited to) Sediment and Erosion Control, Non-Discharge and Water Supply Watershed regulations. This
approval will expire with the accompanying 404 permit.
NoprthCarolina
Transportation Permitting Unit 'du ralilf
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] FAX [phone] Internet: htta://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands
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This approval is valid solely for the purpose and design described in your application (unless modified below).
Should your project change, you must notify the DWQ and submit a new application. If the property is sold, the
new owner must be given a copy of this Certification and approval letter, and is thereby responsible for complying
with all the conditions. If total wetland fills for this project (now or in the future) exceed one acre, or of total
impacts to streams (now or in the future) exceed 150 linear feet, compensatory mitigation may be required as
described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h) (6) and (7). For this approval to remain valid, you must adhere to the
conditions listed in the attached certification as well as those listed below.
Conditions of Certification:
1. Riprap shall not be placed in the active thalweg channel or placed in the streambed in a manner that precludes
aquatic life passage. Bioengineering boulders or structures should be properly designed, sized and installed.
2. For any streams being impacted due to site dewatering activties, the site shall be graded to its preconstruction
contours and revegetated with appropriate native species.
3. All stormwater runoff shall be directed as sheetflow through stream buffers at nonerosive velocities, unless
otherwise approved by this certification.
4. All riparian buffers impacted by the placement of temporary fill or clearing activities shall be restored to the
preconstruction contours and revegetated. Maintained buffers shall be permanently revegetated with non-woody
species by the end of the growing season following completion of construction. For the purpose of this condition,
maintained buffer areas are defined as areas within the transportation corridor that will be subject to regular DOT
maintenance activities including mowing. The area with non-maintained buffers shall be permanently revegetated,
with native woody species before the next growing season following completion of construction.
5. Pursuant to NCACI5A 2B.0233(6) sediment and erosion control devices shall not be placed in Zone 1 of any
Neuse Buffer without prior approval by the NCDWQ. At this time, the NCDWQ has approved no sediment and
erosion control devices in Zone 1, outside of the approved project impacts, anywhere on this project. Moreover,
sediment and erosion control devices shall be allowed in Zone 2 of the buffers provided that Zone 1 is not
compromised and that discharge is released as diffuse flow.
6. If concrete is used during construction, a dry work area shall be maintained to prevent direct contact between
curing concrete and stream water. Water that inadvertently contacts uncured concrete shall not be discharged to
surface waters due to the potential for elevated pH and possible aquatic life and fish kills.
7. During the construction of the project, no staging of equipment of any kind is permitted in waters of the U.S., or
protected riparian buffers.
8. The dimension, pattern and profile of the stream above and below the crossing shall not be modified. Disturbed
floodplains and streams shall be restored to natural geomorphic conditions.
9. The use of rip-rap above the Normal High Water Mark shall be minimized.. Any rip-rap placed for stream
stabilization shall be placed in stream channels in such a manner that it does not impede aquatic life passage.
10. The Permittee shall ensure that the final design drawings adhere to the permit and to the permit drawings
submitted for approval.
11. All work in or adjacent to stream waters shall be conducted in a dry work area. Approved BMP measures from
the most current version of NCDOT Construction and Maintenance Activities manual such as sandbags, rock berms,
cofferdams and other diversion structures shall be used to prevent excavation in flowing water.
Transportation Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] / FAX [phone] Internet: http://h2o,enr.state.nc.usfncwetiands
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12. Heavy equipment shall be operated from the banks rather than in the stream channel in order to minimize
sedimentation and reduce the introduction of other pollutants into the stream.
13. All mechanized equipment operated near surface waters must be regularly i t pected an maintained to prevent
contamination of stream waters from fuels, lubricants, hydraulic materials.
14. No rock, sand or other materials shall be dredged from the stream channel except where authorized by this
certification.
15. Discharging hydroseed mixtures and washing out hydroseeders and other equipment in or adjacent to surface
waters is prohibited.
16. The permittee and its authorized agents shall conduct its activities in a manner consistent ith rate water and Clean W
Act) quality standards (including any requirements resulting from compliance withines §303(d) of of t standards or laws are not
any other appropriate requirements of State and Federal law. If DWQ determ being met (including the failure to sustain a designated achieved
may reevaluate and violationated,
or that further conditions are necessary to assure compliance, the 17. A copy of this Water Quality Certification shall subsequent tmodif? ationsatif anyconstruction site at all
shall be maintainedhwith the
addition, the Water Quality Certification and all Division Engineer and the on-site project manager.
18. The outside buffer, wetland or water boundary located within the construction corridor approved by this
authorization shall be clearly marked by highly visible fencing prior to any land disturbing activities. Impacts to
areas within the fencing are prohibited unless otherwise authorized by this certification.
19. The issuance of this certification does not exempt the Permittee from complying with any and all statutes, rules,
regulations, or ordinances that may be imposed by other government agencies (i.e. local, state, and federal) having
jurisdiction, including but not limited to applicable buffer rules, stormwater management rules, soil erosion an
sedimentation control requirements, etc.
20. The Permittee shall report any violations of this certification to the Division of Water Quality within 24 hours of
discovery. the 21. Upon completion of the project (including Cei-tific ton of Completion Forms to notify DWQ DO n
Division Engineer shall complete and return the enclosed
all work included in the 401 Certification has been completed.
22. Native riparian vegetation (i.e., trees and shrubs native to you geographic region) must be reestablished within
the construction limits of the project by the end of the growing season following completion of construction.
23. There shall be no excavation from, or waste disposal into, jurisdictional wetlands or waters associated with this sites,
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permit without appropriate modification. Shoulwasw?ll be requiredasince thatis a direct impact from road
located in wetlands or streams, compensatory mitigation
construction activities.
24. Sediment and erosion control measures shall not be placed in wetlands or waters unless otherwise
approved by this Certification.
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Transportation Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] FAX [phone] Internet: htt :1ih2o.enr.state.nc.ustncwetlands
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Coleen Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
compliance with all specifications governing
and sediment control practices must be in full comp
Erosion installation and operation and maintenance of such Best Management Practices in
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must be
desi a. The erosion and sediment control measures recent verpon of the North Car?oilin Sedimeen and Erosion
maintained in accordance with the most
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Control Planning and Design Manual. and
easures b. The design, installation, operation, and maintenance of th
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must be such that they equal, or exceed, the req
North Carolina Sediment and Erosion Control Manual. The devices shall be maintained on a
construction sites, borrow sites, and was pile (spoil) projects, including contractor-owned or leased
operated,
borrow pits associated with the project.
c. For borrow pit sites, the erosion and sediment control measures must be designed, installed,
and maintained in accordance with the most recent version of the North Carolina Surface Mining
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Manual. with the reclamation in accordance
d. The reclamation measures and implementation must comply
the requirements of the Sedimentation Pollution Control Act.
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Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699. This ie?Division o WaterQu lity under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. If YOU
This letter completes lthe review of ease contact Rob Ridings at [phone].
have any questions, p
Sincerely,
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Coleen Sullins,
Director
Attachments (General Certification and Certificate of Completion form)
cc: Chris Murray, Division 5 Environmental officer Raleigh Field Office
Eric Alsmeyer, US Army Corps of Engineers,
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Transportation Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
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