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NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins Dee Freeman
Governor Director Secretary
May 19, 2009
DWQ Project # 09-0354
Hyde County
Ocracoke Sanitary District
Attn: Lonnie Burrus
PO Box 567
Ocracoke, NC 27960
Subject Property: 159 Water Plant Road
Pamlico Sound, Tar-Pamlico Basin, 030308, 29-(40.5), SA, HQW
Approval of 401 Water Quality Certification (GC3642) with Additional Conditions
Dear Mr. Burrus:
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to place fill material
within or otherwise impact 20 square feet of waters to replace an existing discharge line
for the reverse osmosis plant as described in your application received by the Division of
Water Quality (DWQ) 401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit on April 1, 2009.
Temporary impacts within Zone 2 of the Tar-Pamlico Riparian Buffer associated with the
directional drilling are also allowed with this certification. After reviewing your
application, we have determined that the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) General
Water Quality Certification Number 3642 covers these water impacts. This Certification
allows you to General Permit No. 198000291 when issued by the US Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE). In addition, you should get or otherwise comply with any other
federal, state and local requirements before you go ahead with your project including (but
not limited to) erosion and sediment control regulations and CAMA. Also, this approval
to proceed with your proposed impacts or to conduct impacts to waters as depicted
in your application shall expire upon expiration of the 404 or CAMA Permit.
This approval is for the purpose and design that you described in your application. If you
change your project, you must notify us and you may be required to send us a new
application. If the property is sold, the new owner must be given a copy of this
Certification and approval letter and is thereby responsible for complying with all
conditions. If total fills for this project (now or in the future) exceed one acre of wetland
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or 150 linear feet of stream, compensatory mitigation may be required as described in
15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h). This approval requires you to follow the conditions listed in
the attached certification and any additional conditions listed below.
The Additional Conditions of the Certification are:
1. Impacts Approved
The following impacts are hereby approved as long as all of the other specific and
general conditions of this Certification (or Isolated Wetland Permit) are met. No
other impacts are approved including incidental impacts:
Amount Approved
(Units) Plan Location or Reference
Stream na (feet) na
404/CAMA Wetlands na (acres) na
Waters 0.0005 (acres) Plat provided with application
Buffers na (square ft.) na
2. Certificate of Completion
Upon completion of all work approved within the 401 Water Quality Certification or
applicable Buffer Rules, and any subsequent modifications, the applicant is required
to return the attached certificate of completion to the 401 Oversight/Express Review
Permitting Unit, North Carolina Division of Water Quality, 1650 Mail Service
Center, Raleigh, NC, 27699-1650.
3. Water Quality Certification
The proposed project must comply with all of the conditions of General Water
Quality Certification (GC) 3642.
4. No Impacts Beyond those in Application
No waste, spoil, solids, or fill of any kind shall occur in wetlands, waters, or riparian
areas beyond the footprint of the impacts depicted in the Pre-construction
Notification. All construction activities, including the design, installation, operation,
and maintenance of sediment and erosion control Best Management Practices, shall
be performed so that no violations of state water quality standards, statutes, or rules
occur.
5. Buffer Replanting
All temporary disturbance within the Tar-Pamlico Riparian Buffer shall be restored to
original condition immediately following the installation of the discharge line.
Replanting of vegetation within disturbed areas located within 50 feet of the shoreline
or coastal wetland (whichever is more landward) associated with pipe installation,
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repair, replacement and/or maintenance must be done in an "in kind" manner
immediately following construction. (Example: Disturbed areas with pre-existing
grassed lawns must be replanted with grass. Disturbed areas with pre-existing trees or
woody vegetation must be replanted with trees and woody vegetation. Disturbed areas
with pre-existing forest vegetation must be replanted with forest vegetation including at
least two different native hardwood tree species at a density sufficient to provide 320
trees per acre at maturity. This density can usually be achieved by planting
approximately 436 (10 x 10 spacing) to 681 (8 x 8 spacing) trees per acre.)
Violations of any condition herein set forth may result in revocation of this Certification
and may result in criminal and/or civil penalties. The authorization to proceed with your
proposed impacts or to conduct impacts to waters as depicted in your application and as
authorized by this Certification, shall expire upon expiration of the 404 or CAMA Permit.
If you do not accept any of the conditions of this Certification (associated with the
approved water impacts), 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, 6714 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-6714.
This certification and its conditions are final and 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 and the Tar-Pamlico riparian buffer protection rule as described
within 15A NCAC 2B .0259. If you have any questions, please telephone Kyle Barnes of
the Washington Regional Office at 252-948-3917 or Ian McMillan of the 401
Oversight/Express Unit at 919-715-4631.
S?ncerelyl,
Coleen . u ns
Enclosures: Certificate of Completion
GC 3642
cc: Corps of Engineers Washington Field Office
DWQ 401 Oversight/Express Unit
CAMA, Doug Hugget, Morehead Office
CAMA, WaRO
DLR, WaRO
File copy
Ben Williams, Rivers and Associates Inc.
PO Box 929, Greenville, NC 27834