20180119 Ver 2_DWR_Letter from Brown_10_28_19_20191028

Howard Brown
235 Milton Mashburn Dr.
Andrews, N.C. 28901
10/28/19
Subject: 339 Cold Springs Creek Road Trout Farm Intake, Macon County
DWR# 18-0119
Action ID. 2017-00911
Gentlemen,
The Non- Impounding intake was installed during the first 3 weeks of September. Since
that time we have continually withdrawn 1,000 gallons/minute. At no time, during the past 5
weeks, has the water flow in the creek, below the intake, been less than 600 gallons per
minute. And certainly up until last weekend this has certainly been a dry time.
During the instillation we installed a pump back pipe in case we need to return some of
the bypassed water back to the intake.
My thought is to measure and record the creek flow below the intake once per week. If
the flow gets close to 600 GPM it might be good to measure it a couple times per week so that
we could reduce the bypass or pump back.
Is it sufficient for us to simply keep the log on hand for your inspection or do you want it
mailed to you?
Howard Brown