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NORTH•CAROLINA
AQUARIUMS
NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT PINE KNOLL SHORES
P.O. Box 580 Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-0580 • [phone] • Fax: [phone]
March 23, 2000
Jim Bushardt
Division of Environmental Management
127 Cardinal Drive Extension
Wilmington, NC 28405-3845
Dear Jim,
As you may recall from my letter dated April, 1999, the Aquarium had planned on a
temporary move to Atlantic Station Shopping Center in Atlantic Beach while our $15
million renovation got underway. We had planned on closing this past winter and
making the transition into our temporary home, which would have required an NPDES
discharge relocation (which you have approved).
But as you may know, our funding has been reallocated to the Hurricane Floyd flood
relief program, and our expansion put on hold. Therefore, we are still operating out of
our facility in Pine Knoll Shores. We are confident, however, that our funding will be
restored and our construction will move forward sometime within the next year or two.
In the meantime, we still have possession of the Atlantic Station leased space, and we
are now sub -leasing a portion of it. There is the possibility that we may move ahead
with plans to set up animal holding facilities as originally described sometime later in
2000. This could mean that we would then operate holding facilities, and have
wastewater discharges, in two locations simultaneously— here at the aquarium and at
Atlantic Station.
I am writing you regarding this as a form of update, but also to inquire if.any changes or
additions to our existing NPDES permit would be required. Please feel free to call or
visit again if you have further questions.
Thank you for your assistance and cooperation in this matter.
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NCDENR DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES • JAMES B. HUNT, JR., GOVERNOR • WAYNE McDEVITT, SECRETARY

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't)jay
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Aquarium Director
PC: Ted Tyndell, Coastal Management
Todd Miller, NC Coastal Federation
Pete Chenery, Investment Management, Inc.
Chris Ivers, NC Aquariums
Rhett White, NC Aquariums

MAY 21 1999
NORTH•CAROLINA
AQUARIUMS
NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT PINE KNOLL SHORES
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-0580 • [phone] • Fax: [phone]
www.ncaquariums.com
May 20, 1999
Ted Tyndall
Division of Coastal Management
Hestron Plaza II, 151-B, Highway 24
Morehead City, NC 28557
Dear Ted,
Thank you for your assistance last month in our efforts to relocate the aquarium to
Atlantic Station Shopping Center. We would now like to move forward with a CAMA
permit to allow us to install the discharge and intake pipes we discussed. Enclosed are
the consent letters you requested from the Town of Atlantic Beach and from the Coastal
Federation. I have spoken with representatives of each and informed them of our plans.
You should have a copy of a drawing we developed showing the locations of the
proposed pipes, along with some specifications for those pipes. Please let me know if
other supporting materials are needed at this time. I will be happy to fill out any need
forms and initiate payment at the appropriate time.
Thank you again for your assistance on this project, and let me know what further
action is required.
Sin r ly,
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Jay rnes
Director
PC: Jim Bushardt, DEM
Pete Chenery, Investment Management, Inc.
Rhett White, NC Aquariums
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES • JJAAMES B. HUNT JR,, GOVERNOR • WAYNE MCDEVITT, SECRETARY
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MAY 21 1999
NORTH•CAROLINA
AQUARIUMS
NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT PINE KNOLL SHORES
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-0580 • [phone] • Fax: [phone]
www.ncoquariums.com
May 20, 1999
Jim Bushardt
Division of Environmental Management
127 Cardinal Drive
Wilmington, NC 28405-3845
Dear Jim,
Thank you for your assistance last month with our plans to relocate to Atlantic Station
Shopping Center. Since our meeting, I have met with representatives of the Coastal
Federation and the Town of Atlantic Beach, both of which are adjacent property
owners, and both have been informed of our plans and have no problem with them.
Attached are letters of consent for your review. I will also forward these letters to Ted
Tyndall of Coastal Management so that our application for a CAMA permit can get
underway.
As we discussed, we would like to proceed with the project under our existing NPDES
permit. The timetable for use of the Atlantic Station discharge has slipped just a bit, in
that we will likely not begin any discharges there until October or November. However,
we still will install the pipe late this summer as originally planned.
Please let me know if I need to provide you with any additional information, diagrams,
etc. I will keep you informed of the status of our CAMA permit as well.
Thank you again for your cooperation and assistance.
Sincer ly,
Jay Ba nes
Director
PC: Ted Tyndall
Rhett White
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES • JAMES B. HUNT JR., GOVERNOR • WAYNE MCDEVITT SECRETARY
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TOWN OF ATLANTIC BEACH
125 WEST FORT MACON ROAD
ATLANTIC BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA
May 19, 1999
Mr. jay Bamcs
Aquarium Director
P.{], Box 560
atlantic Beach, North Carolina 28512
Dear M. Games_
Belatedly, this is in pollow-up to our recent telephone conversation during which you
indicated that the aquarium would be temporarily relocating to .Atlantic Station while the
facility in Pine Knoll Shoves is being renovated. Please be advised that the Town of Atlantic
Beach has no objection to the proposed intake/discharge pipelines to be installed behind the
shopping center to serve your te: orary quarters. Please proceed with authorization for
required CAMA permits.
We are very pleased that the aquarium will be in Atlantic Beadi - even if only for a couple of
years. If there's anything the town can do to assist you with your move or while you're here,
please don't besltate to contact me.
Cotdia!!y,
F,dward L. Sealover
Town Manager
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POST OFFICE BOX 10 • ATLANTIC BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA 28512 • [phone] • FAX [phone]

MAY 21 1999
3609 HWY 24 (OCEAN) - NEWPORT, NORTH CAROUNA 28570 - [phone] - Fax [phone]
May 11, 1999
Jay Barnes
Aquarium Director
North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-0580
Dear Jay,
This letter is in reference to your proposed installation of a discharge pipe and a salt water intake
line to meet the needs at the Aquarium's interim facility in the Atlantic Station Shopping Center.
The proposed discharge line is adjacent to the Hoop Pole Creek Property, and the proposed
intake line would be on the property and in the creek itself. The property know as Hoop Pole
Creek is owned by the North Carolina Coastal Federation (NCCF), and is managed under
conditions prescribed by the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund (NC-
CWMTF), an existing conservation easement, and a management plan created by an advisory
committee.
With these guidelines in mind, NCCF does not see any adverse affects to Hoop Pole Creek from
the proposed installation (as outlined in your letter of April 22, 1999) of the discharge pipe and
the resulting flow on the adjacent property. In regards to your request to install a salt water intake
line in Hoop Pole Creek, per your discussion with our education director, Ted Wilgis, the North
Carolina Coastal federation does not object to this project under the following conditions:
1) The intake line would be a 2" PVC pipe;
2) The laying of the pipe and the pipe itself would not cause any lasting disturbance to the creek
or its shoreline, nor the surrounding wetlands and uplands of the property;
3) The pipe would be hidden or camouflaged and/or marked with a sign indicating that it is
aquarium property;
4) The aquarium would attempt to pump from the facility instead of using a gasoline powered
pump that would be attached to the end of the pipe;
5) Aquarium staff will contact NCCF before the pipe is laid to confirm its placement;
6) Aquarium and NCCF staff will monitor the intake pipe and its use for any lasting adverse
impacts on the creek and the property, and if any impacts are discovered steps will be taken
immediately to reverse the impacts.
Please let me or Ted know if you have any questions or comments regarding these conditions. We
look forward to assisting the Aquarium with its expansion and interim facility needs as much as

MAY 21 1999
possible. Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.
Sincerely;
Toodd d NLllerx
Executive Director
cc: Dr. Dave McNaught - Executive Director NC-CWMTF
Hoop Pole Advisory Committee
Ted Wilgis - NCCF Education Director

NORTH•CAROLINA
AQUARIUMS
MAY 10 1999
NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT PINE KNOLL SHORES
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-0580 • [phone] • Fax: [phone]
www.ncaquariums.com
May 7, 1999
Pete Chenery
Investment Marketing and Management, Inc.
1514 Glenwood Ave. Suite 200
PO Box 10704
Raleigh, NC 27608
Dear Pete,
As you know, we are moving forward with drafting a lease agreement between the
Aquarium and Atlantic Station Shopping Center for our use as an off -site facility. I will
be in touch with you as soon as we have a lease prepared for signatures. We look
forward to this arrangement, and again thank you and Mr. Hull for your contributions
toward our efforts.
We are also moving forward with our plans to obtain authority to install saltwater
discharge and intake lines in the marsh behind the shopping center. Two weeks ago
met with representatives of the Division of Environmental Management (Jim Bushardt),
the Division of Coastal Management (Ted Tyndall), and Shellfish Sanitation. After
hearing our needs and discussing our plans, all three concluded that this installation
was permitable. We will be applying for a minor CAMA permit as soon as we receive
letters of consent from the adjacent landowners, the Town of Atlantic Beach and the
Coastal Federation. I have spoken with Mr. Sealover of the Town, and Mr. Wilgus of
the Coastal Federation, and both indicated that this would not be a problem --letters
should be forthcoming soon.
Also, Mr. Bushardt of Environmental Management suggested that the discharges we
will have can be covered under our existing NPDES permit. He will draft a letter for his
file that will include language that addresses the temporary relocation of the discharge
to Atlantic Station.
We are pleased that this project is on track and look forward to further discussing with
you the upfitting of the space. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding
our efforts to prepare for the move.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES • JAMES B. HUNT JR., GOVERNOR • WAYNE MCDEVITT SECRETARY
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Sincer ly,
Jay Barnes
Aquarium Director
PC: Rhett White
Jim Bushardt
Ted Tyndall
Stuart May

APR 2 6 1999
NORTH•CAROLINA
AQUARIUMS
NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT PINE KNOLL SHORES
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-0580 • [phone] • Fax: [phone]
www.ncaquariums.com
April21, 1999
Jim Bushardt
Division of Environmental Management
127 Cardinal Drive Extension
Wilmington, NC 28405-3845
Dear Jim,
Thank you for taking time to meet with me last week to discuss our waste discharge
needs at our new interim location in Atlantic Beach. The following is my request, as we
discussed, for permit coverage under our existing NPDES permit, for this new
operation.
In August, 1999, the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium will close to the public so that our $15
million expansion and renovation can begin. During this construction, we plan to move
our exhibits and animal holding facilities to Atlantic Station Shopping Center in Atlantic
Beach. We expect to be in this location for at least two years. We have met with the
owners and discussed our facility needs, and assured them that we would investigate
all necessary permits for discharge of husbandry wastes. As a result, we will be
working with you regarding the NPDES issues, and as you know, we will be working
with Ted Tyndell of Coastal Management regarding any necessary CAMA permits. Ted
has already asked us to contact the adjacent property owners to get that process
started.
Attached is a rough drawing of the Atlantic Station facility location, which features
markings to show our proposed discharge line, and a proposed salt water intake line.
The holding tanks that we will have at this facility are very similar in size, number, and
scope to our current holding tanks which are already covered under our NPDES permit.
These hold salt and fresh water fish and reptiles; we do not house any mammals. Most
discharges will result from routine water changes (minimum 15% volume per month)
and from sand filter back -washes. We propose to run the discharge pipe under the
pavement from the building and extend it approximately 15 feet into the upper marsh.
The pipe will be 6 inch PVC, and will be fitted with a perforated outlet to disperse the
flow.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES • JJAAMES B. HUNT JR., GOVERNOR • WAYNE MCDEVITT, SECRETARY
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The intake line we propose to install is for the purpose of drawing salt water from Hoop
Hole Creek to fill storage and holding tanks. Use of salt water in this fashion would
save us considerable costs for dry salt mixtures. The intake line would be 2 inch PVC
and would be laid alongside the discharge pipe to the marsh, and then turn and run
along the parking lot edge and through the brush to Hoop Hole Creek. This pipe would
not need to be buried. Our staff would intermittently (maybe once every week) go into
the creek in a small boat with a gas -powered pump, attach to the pipe, and pump salt
water back to the facility where it would be stored in large storage tanks. We will
discuss the possibility of installing this pipe with the NC Coastal Federation, which
owns the property adjacent to the shopping center, since it may require that the pipe
actually rest on their property. It is our understanding that the intake pipeline would not
be of concern to the NPDES process.
Thank you for your assistance and cooperation in this matter. If you have any further
questions, please contact me at the number above.
J
um Director
PC: Ted Tyndell, Coastal Management
Todd Miller, NC Coastal Federation
Pete Chenery, Investment Management, Inc.
Chris Ivers, NC Aquariums
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FUNCTION=> C NEXT PERMIT=> GENERAL PERMIT ENTRY/UPDATE RRD160
PERMIT NO: GPCI9674 DISTRICT: I COUNTY: CARTERET
AEC DESIG: EW PT ES APP FEE: 50.00 REGIONAL REP: TYNDALL
APPLICANT NAME: NC AQUARIUMS **
MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 580
CITY: ATLANTIC BEAC STATE: NC ZIP: 28512
LOCATION: OFF NC 58 WATER BODY: ATLANTIC OCEAN
LOCATION ADDRESS: ATLANTIC STATION SHOPPING CENT (WHEN DIFFERENT FROM MAILING)
CITY: ATLANTIC BEAC STATE: NC ZIP: 28512
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