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State of North Carolina
Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Bill Holman, Secretary
Kerr T. Stevens, Director
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NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF. -
ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18,11999
Mr. Kenneth Bailey
Arland Community Development
448 Viking Drive, Suite 25
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Dear Mr. Bailey:
Re: Stream Restoration Plan
Eagle Ridge Development
DWQ #: 960722, COE#: 199920576
Wake County -
DWQ staff has completed our review of the Eagle Ridge stream relocation plan
submitted by Scott Mitchell of the John R. McAdams Company dated 13 October 1999.
The following changes need to be made in the site plan for the golf course near the stream
restoration site in order to have this effort count as the required restoration.
We do not agree with Mr. Mitchell's calculations for varying buffer widths as
presented in his 13 October 1999 letter. As presently designed, you will need to provide
compensatory mitigation for 885 linear feet of stream restoration with less than 50 foot of
protected, vegetated buffer and 316 linear feet of stream restoration from earlier impacts.
However, we believe that the stream restoration plan and golf course in this area should
be modified as below at least to partially address these shortcomings.
A 30 foot wide wooded and 20 foot wide undisturbed vegetated (i.e., wooded or
rough vegetation) will be needed in order to qualify as stream restoration. Also, this area
will need to be protected from disturbance. Therefore, the golf course will need to be
redesigned with a conservation easement at B, and D/E. Also the proposed creek
alignment will need to be modified at C and F to provide this buffer. The stream at A,
where the golf course crosses the channel, will not count as mitigation.
If the above changes to the site plan are not made, then additional stream
restoration will be needed to make up the difference. Finally, we recently received Mr.
Linnenburger's letter of November 15, 1999 concerning stream restoration above the
proposed pond. The restoration above the road is acceptable since the channel has been
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straightened but the restoration below the road shows a sinuous channel, which does not
need restoration and is thereby unacceptable.
Please submit a revised stream restoration plan and golf course design that meets
the above requirements. I can be reached at 919-733-9646 if you have any questions.
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J n R. Domey
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cc: Ken Jolly; Raleigh Field Office US Army Corps of Engineers
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DWQ Raleigh Regional Office
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Scott Mitchell; John R. McAdams Company
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