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Beverly Eaves Perdue
Governor
AVA
NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Coleen H. Sullins
Director
Dee Freeman
Secretary
August 20, 2009
DWQ# 09-0573
Forsyth County
Mr. David Saunders
City of Winston-Salem
101 N. Main St, Suite 357
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Re: Section 401 Water Quality Certification application
Dear Mr. Saunders:
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to place fill and impact 239 linear feet of
two unnamed tributaries to Salem Creek to construct the RA Thomas Water Treatment Plant Improvements
located in Winston-Salem, NC in Forsyth County, as described in your application received by the Division
on May 19, 2009, and additional information received on July 22, 2009. After reviewing your modification
application, we have determined that this fill is covered by General Water Quality Certification Numbers
3705, which can be viewed on our web site at
http://h20.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands/rd _wetlands _ certifications.htm. This Certification allows you to use
Nationwide Permit Number 39 when it is issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In addition, you
should secure any other applicable federal, state or local permits before you proceed with your project,
including (but not limited to) those required by Sediment and Erosion Control (including trout buffer waivers
as necessary), Non-Discharge, State Stormwater, and Water Supply Watershed regulations. Also, this
approval will expire when the accompanying 404 permits expire unless otherwise specified in the General
Certi fication.
This approval is valid only for the purpose and design that you have described in your application. If you
change your project, you must notify us in writing, and you may be required to send us a new application for a
new certification. If the property is sold, the new owner must be given a copy of the Certification and
approval letter and is thereby responsible for complying with all conditions. If total wetland fill for this
project (now or in the future) exceeds one acre, or total fill to perennial streams equals or exceeds 150 linear
feet, additional compensatory mitigation may be required as described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h), For this
approval to be valid, you must follow the conditions listed in the attached certification, as well as the
additional conditions listed below:
1. The following impacts are hereby approved as long as all other specific and general conditions of
this Certification are met. No other impacts, including incidental impacts, are approved:
Id;-~tifier Stream Impact length
Site Sl Unnamed Tributary #1 to Salem Creek 51 feet permanent impact
Site S2 Unnamed Tributary #2 to Salem Creek 40 feet permanent impact
North Carolina Division of Water Quality, Winston-Salem Regional Office
Location: 585 Waughtown SI. Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27107
Phone: 336.771.5000 \ FAX: 336-771-4630 \ Customer Service: 1-877-623,6748
Internet: www,ncwaterquality,org
N~rth Carolina
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An Equal Opportunity \ Affirmative Action Employer
Mr. David Saunders
DWQ# 09-0573
August 20, 2009
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90 feet temporary impact
Site S3 Unnamed Tributary #2 to Salem Creek 38 feet permanent impact
30 feet temporary impacts
Total 129 linear feet permanent
110 linear feet temporary
2. Upon finishing the project, the Applicant shall fill out and return the enclosed "Certificate of
Completion" to notify NCDWQ when all work included in the 401 Certification has been completed,
This certificate should be returned to the Winston-Salem Regional Office of the NCDWQ at the address
listed on the form.
If you do not accept any of the conditions of this certification, 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 9f 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.
If you have any questions, please contact Sue Homewood in the DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office at
336-771-4964 or at sue.homewood@ncmaiLnet.
Sincerely,
;kvd
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Co1een H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
cc: John Thomas, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Raleigh Regulatory Field Office (via emai1)
Kurtis Proffit, P.E., Black & Veatch (via email)
DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office
DWQ Wetlands/401