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FW: More Information Needed for Penny Road Greenway Letter
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From: Carpenter,Kristi
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Jerry A<jparker@ncdot.gov>; Thomson, Nicole J<njthomson2@ncdot.gov>; Wrenn, Brian L<brian.wrenn@ncdenr.gov>
Subject: More Information Needed for Penny Road Greenway Letter
All,
This email is being sent to you because you have been identified as an electronic copy recipient of the subject project. If
you have any questions about this email or the attached document, please contact Brian Wrenn at 919-707-8792 or
brian.wrenn(a�ncdenr. o�v.
If you have General Certification questions please use the following link to access the site map for General Certifications
on our Website: https://deq.nc.�ov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-resources-permits/wastewater-branch/401-
wetlands-buffer-permits/401-�eneral-certifications.
Sincerely,
Kristi Lynn Carpenter
Kristi Lynn Carpenter
Administrative Assistant
Transportation Permitting Unit
NCDEQ/Division of Water Resources — Wetlands Branch
919.707.8785 office
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Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
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June I5, 2016
Mr. Randy McCaslin, Deputy City Manager
City of High Point
211 S. Hamilton Street
High Point, NC ?7260
Subject: Proposed Penny Road Greenway in Guilford County, Federal Aid Project No. TCSP-0710(20), State
Project No. 45125.1.1, TIP Project No. EL-5104.
Dear Mr. McCaslin:
The Division of Water Resources has reviewed your submittal for a 401 Water Quality Certification and Randleman
Buffer Rules Authorization for the subject project. Review of your application revealed it lacking necessary
information required for making an informed permit decision. The permit application was deficient in the following
areas:
• Page 1, Section A.ld. of the Pre-Construction Notification (PCN) form indicates that you are only applying for
a 401 Water Quality Certification. The project is located in the Randleman Lake watershed and appears to
impact protected riparian buffers. The PCN should also indicate that you are applying for a Riparian Buffer
Authorization. Please submit a revised page 1 of the PCN.
• The drawings submitted with the application do not show the areas of impact to streams, wetlands, or buffers.
Although it can be assumed that the impacts correspond with the location of the greenway, there may be
additional cleared areas outside of the greenway location for installation and maintenance purposes. Please
clearly show the impacts to streams, wetlands, and buffers on the drawings at a scale that is easy to read (no
greater than 1 "=50').
• [t is unclear whether there will be a maintenance corridor along either side of the greenway through the buffers.
NCDWR will accept 2-foot maintenance corridors on either side of the greenway through buffers. Please
indicate the location and width of any maintenance corridors on the drawings.
• The temporary culverts shown on the plans do not include specifics on the culvert diameters. Please provide
details of the culvert dimensions that demonstrate they are appropriately sized for the respective streams.
• Sheet 8 of the drawings appears to shows parallel impacts to Zones 1 and 2. Is it possible to shift the alignment
of the greenway to avoid the impacts to Zone 1. If not, please provide a justification for the Zone 1 impacts.
• Sheet 9 of the drawings appears to show the asphalt greenway beginning in Zone 1. [s it possible to extend the
elevated timber greenway section beyond Zone l? If not, please provide a justification for the Zone ] impacts.
• Sheets 13 and 14 of the drawings appear to show a riprap ditch beginning approximately at the elevated timber
greenway section and extending down through Zone 2 of the buffers. This is not considered diffuse flow and
does not appear to meet the requirements of stormwater treatment to control nitrogen and attenuate flow for new
conveyances through the buffers [ 1 SA NCAC 02B .0250(9)]. Please provide justification for this new
stormwater conveyance as proposed. Please be aware that if the conveyance is approved as proposed,
mitigation will be required for the buffer impacts resulting from the conveyance.
Therefore, pursuant to 15A NCAC 2H .0507(a)(5), we will have to place the permit application on hold until we are
supplied the necessary information. You have 21 days to respond in writing with the requested information or
notification to this office that the information is forthcoming. If, at the end of the 21 days, this office has not
received this information in writing, we will assume you are withdrawing your application and it will be returned.
Furthermore, until the information is received by the NC Division of Water Resources, we request (by copy of this
letter) that the US Army Corps of Engineers place the permit application on hold.
If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact Brian Wrenn at 919-707-8792 or
brian.wrenn@ncdenr.gov.
State of North Carolina ,Environmental Quality I Water Resources
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
Phone:919-807-6300
Sincerely, �
S. Jay Zimmerman, Dir for
Division of Water Resources
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David Bailey, US Army Corps of Engineers, Raleigh Field Office
Jerry Parker, Division 7 Environmental Officer
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