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Environmental Planning Consultant
Landscape Architecture
Land Planning
August 5, 1997
Mr. Steve Lund
US Army Corps of Engineers - Reg. Field Office
151 Patton Avenue - Room 143
Asheville, NC 28801 - 5006
Mr. John R. Dorney
Division of Water Quality - NCDEHNR
Environmental Science Laboratories
4401 Reedy Creek Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
7113 Hickory Nut Drive
Raleigh, NC 27613
[phone]

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Re: NWP 926 for + 208 Acre Site at Tom Short, Road and Rea Road, Union County,
NC
Dear Sirs:
On behalf of Mr. Jim Medall of Rhein Int#rests, I am requesting confirmation of
eligibility to utilize NWP# 26 to impact ±0.20 acres of wetlands in the headwaters of Six
Mile Creek to develop this ± 208 acre residential site south of Charlotte. The total area of
Jurisdictional Waters on the site is ± 7.25 acres based on my site evaluation and USACE
verification. As depicted on the attached plan the developer has made an exceptional
effort to avoid and minimize impacts to jurisdictional waters including wetlands and
small streams. The developer will maintain the hydrology to the wetlands to the extent
possible with the stormwater drainage system on the project.
The majority of the site is a slightly sloped to flat with no well defined drainageway or
stream. The soils according to NRCS Soil Survey on site are made up of Iredell fine
sandy loam (IrA), Mecklenburg fine sandy loam (MeB2), and Chewacla (ChA) in the
floodplain. Vegetation includes mixed hardwoods forest ranging from mature xeric
hardpan forest to mature mesic hardpan forest and areas in secondary succession. Areas
in former agricultural fields include old field succession and dense scrub/shrub
overgrowth. Large areas of the woodlands were impacted by Hurricane Hugo.
The developer will require strict adherence to an approved Sediment and Erosion Control
Plan and I have informed my client that a preconstruction application to the USACE and
the NCDWQ will be required if the development area changes and impacts of 1/3 acre to
wetlands and over 150 1f to streams area required.
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Please let me know if you have any questions or require additional information.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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S. Rindner
Environmental Planning Consultant
NC Landscape Architect #578
cc: Mr. Jim Medall
Robert Rhein Interests, Inc.
5250 77 Center Drive, Suite 350
Charlotte, NC 28217
Mr. Marc Houle
Yarbrough - Williams & Associates, Inc.
Planning-Surveying-Engineering
730 Windsor Oak Court
Charlotte, N.C. 28273
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LEONARD S RiUVDNER
Environmental Planning Consultant 7113 Hickory Nut Drive
Landscape Architecture Raleigh, NC 27613
Land Planning [phone]
August 5, 1997
Mr. Steve Lund
US Army Corps of Engineers - Reg. Field Office
151 Asheville, NC 288018 143
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Environmental Science Laboratories
4401 Reedy Creek Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
Re: NWP #26 for + 208 Acre Site at Tom hort Road and Rea Road, Union Count!
NC
Dear Sirs:
On behalf of Mr. Jim Medall of Rhein Inrests, I am requesting confirmation of
eligibility to utilize NWP# 26 to impact ±0.20 acres of wetlands in the headwaters of Six
Mile Creek to develop this + 208 acre residential site south of Charlotte. The total area of
Jurisdictional Waters on the site is ± 7.25 acres based on my site evaluation and USACE
verification. As depicted on the attached plan the developer has made an exceptional
effort to avoid and minimize impacts to jurisdictional waters including wetlands and
small streams. The developer will maintain the hydrology to the wetlands to the extent
possible with the stormwater drainage system on the project.
The majority of the site is a slightly sloped to flat with no well defined drainageway or
stream. The soils according to NRCS Soil Survey on site are made up of Iredell fine
sandy loam (IrA), Mecklenburg fine sandy loam (MeB2), and Chewacla (ChA) in the
floodplain. Vegetation includes mixed hardwoods forest ranging from mature xeric
hardpan forest to mature mesic hardpan forest and areas in secondary succession. Areas
in former agricultural fields include old field succession and dense scrub/shrub
overgrowth. Large areas of the woodlands were impacted by Hurricane Hugo.
The developer will require strict adherence to an approved Sediment and Erosion Control
Plan and I have informed my client that a preconstruction application to the USACE and
the NCDWQ will be required if the development area changes and impacts of 1/3 acre to
wetlands and over 150 1f to streams area required.
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Please let me know if you have any questions or require additional information.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
j;eonard S. Rindner
Environmental Planning Consultant
NC Landscape Architect #578
cc: Mr. Jim Medall
Robert Rhein Interests, Inc.
5250 77 Center Drive, Suite 350
Charlotte, NC 28217
Mr. Marc Houle
Yarbrough - Williams & Associates, Inc.
Planning-Surveying-Engineering
730 Windsor Oak Court
Charlotte, N.C. 28273
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State of North Carolina
Departme . t of Environment,
Health an atural Resources
Division of W f r Quality
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary
A. Preston Howard, Jr., P.E., Director
APPROVAL of 401 Water Quality Certification
Mr. Jim Medall
Rhine Interests, Inc.
5250 77 Center Drive
Suite 350
Charlotte, NC 28217
Dear Mr. Medall:
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August 20, 1997
Union County
DWQ Project # 970714
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions and those listed below, to place fill
material in 0.2 acres of wetlands or waters for the purpose of constructing a residential subdivision at Tom
Short and Rea Roads, as you described in your application dated August 1997. After reviewing your
application, we have decided that this fill is covered by General Water Quality Certification Number 3108.
This certification allows you to use Nationwide Permit Number 26 when it is issued by the Corps of
Engineers. In addition, you should get any other federal, state or local permits before you go ahead with
your project including (but not limited to) Sediment and Erosion Control, Coastal Stormwater, Non-
Discharge and Water Supply Watershed regulations. This approval will expire when the accompanying 404
or CAMA permit expires unless otherwise specified in the General Certification.
This approval is only valid for the purpose and design that you described in your application except
as modified below. If you change your project, you must notify us and you may be required to send us a
new application. If total wetland fills for this protect (now or in the future) exceed one acre, compensatory
mitigation may be required as described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h) (6) and (7). For this approval to be
valid, you must follow the conditions listed in the attached certification and any additional conditions listed
below.
If you do not accept any of the conditions of this certification, you may ask for an adjudicatory
hearing. You must act within 60 days of the date that you receive this letter. To ask for a hearing, send a
written petition which conforms to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes to the Office of
Administrative Hearings, P.O. Box 27447, Raleigh, N.C. 27611-7447. This certification and its conditions
are final add binding unless you ask for a hearing.
This letter completes the review of the Division of Water Quality under Section 401 of the Clean Water
Act. If you have any questions, please telephone John Domey at 919-733-1786.
Sincerely,
' ton Howard, Jr.
Attachment
cc: Wilmington District Corps of Engineers
Corps of Engineers Asheville Field Office
Mooresville DWQ Regional Office
Mr. John Dorney
Central Files
Len Rindner
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Division of Water Quality - Environmental Sciences Branch
Environmental Sciences Branch, 4401 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607 Telephone [phone] FAX #k 733-9959
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