20080662 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20080513

?QF W AT ?Rp Michael F. Easley, Governor
\Q G William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
Vj r North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
Chuck Wakild, P.E., Deputy Director
Division of Water Quality
May 13, 2008
DWQ Project # 08-0662
Dare County
CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
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Bodie Island Adventures
Attn: Cathy Meredith
3025 Martins Point Road
Kitty Hawk, NC 27949
Subject Property: Bodie Island Adventures, Nags Head
Roanoke Sound, 030156,30-21, SA, HQW
REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dear Ms. Meredith:
On April 9,2008 the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated March
11, 2008, to impact 0.052 acres of waters to construct four additional slips to an existing docking
facility, construct a boat ramp in one foot of water and add additional rip rap to an existing
bulkhead. The DWQ has determined that your application was incomplete and/or pruvid(A
inaccurate information as discussed below. The DWQ will require additional information in.
order to process your application to impact protected wetland, streams and/or buffers on t1Bc
subject property. Therefore, unless we receive the additional information requested below, we
will have to move toward denial of your application as required by 15A NCAC 2H .0506 and
will place this project on hold as incomplete until we receive this additional information. Please
provide the following information so that we may continue to review your project.
Additional Information Requested:
1. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Habitat
The proposed alignment of the four new slips is positioned directly over an area of SAV
habitat in less than three feet of water. Please provide information as to why the four new
slips cannot be moved away from the shoreline to deeper water and avoid impacts to this
environmentally sensitive area.
2. Boat Ramp
The DWQ is concerned. with the shallow depths associated with the proposed 12' by 22'
North Carolina Division of Water Quality Internet: h2o.enr.state.nc.us
943 Washington Square Mall Phone: [phone] One
Washington, NC 27889 FAX [phone] NorthCar?ohna
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boat ramp. The shallow depths associated with this ramp will cause disturbance of the
bottom sediments, create scour and temporary turbidity issues during every use. This
disturbance carries the potential for secondary and cumulative impacts to habitat areas
adjacent to the ramp. During a site visit DWQ staff noted a Division of Wildlife Resources
Commission public ramp within 1.5 miles of the subject property. Please provide
information indicating why the ramp cannot be reconfigured to avoid impacts or removed
from the proposed project.
Please respond in writing to the DWQ within four weeks of the date of this letter to with the
requested information. If we do not hear from you within four weeks, we will assume that you no
longer want to pursue this project and we will consider the project as withdrawn.
This letter only addresses the application review and does not authorize any impacts to wetlands,
waters or protected buffers. Please be aware that any impacts requested within your application
are not authorized (at this time) by the DWQ. Please call Kyle Barnes of the Washington
Regional Office at 252-948-3917 or Ian McMillan of the DWQ Central Office at 919-733-1786
if you have any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter.
Sincerely,
Al Hodge/Supervisor
-?A Division of Water Quality
Surface Water Protection
Washington Regional Office
cc: 4010versight/Express Permitting Unit
USACE Washington Regulatory Field Office
File Copy
Central Files
CAMA: Doug Hugget/Morehead
CAMA: Elizabeth City
WRC, Maria Dunn
Dennis Hawthorn, Coastal Area Permit Assistance
120 Jimmy Court, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948
Filename: 08-0662