20081541 Ver 1_Buffer and nutrient offset audit_20091130

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NOV 3 0 2009
To: John Dorney - DWQ
DENR - WATER OMITY
WETLANDS AND STORMWATER BRANCH
FROM: Marc Recktenwald - EEP
RE: Riparian Buffer and Nutrient Offset Mitigation Verification for
Howard Farm Riparian Buffer Restoration Site - Greene County (Meuse 03)
DWQ# 2008-1541
By memo dated May 26, 2009 (attached), Cyndi Karoly - NCDENR-DWQ - 401
Oversight and Express Permitting Unit, requested that the Ecosystem Enhancement Program
(EEP) determine the amount(s) of Riparian Buffer Mitigation and/or Nutrient Offset Credit that
would be available from the subject site. All buffered areas are a minimum of 50' and a
maximum of 200' wide. As noted in the memo, all buffered areas are adjacent to agricultural
drainage ditches and therefore may only be used for nutrient offset credit. Analysis indicates the
actual buffered area totals 26.19 acres
Based on this information, the Debit Ledger will list 26.19 Nutrient Offset Credits
for this site.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter further, please contact me at any time.
Cc: Cyndi Karoly - NCDENR-DWQ - 401 Oversight and Express Permits Unit
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North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program, 1652 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N( 27699-1652 / 919-715-0476 / www.nceep.net
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North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins
Governor Director
May 26, 2009
TO: Suzanne Klimek -NCEEP
Jeff Jurek - NCEEP
FROM: Cyndi Karoly - 401 Oversight and Express Permits Unit CA
RE: Buffer Mitigation Site Evaluations
Howard Farm Riparian Buffer Restoration Site - Greene County (Meuse 03)
DWQ # 2008-1541
Site Visit: 4/20/09 JRD
Contact Person: John Domey
Dee Freeman
Secretary
The Howard Farm Riparian Restoration Site (NCEEP Full Delivery site) includes buffer restoration along unnamed
tributaries of Mussel Run. According to the monitoring report, 26.3 acres of buffer mitigation is available on the site.
Buffer width was greater than 50 feet in the reports. Staff present include Shelton Sullivan, Matt Matthews, Amy Chapman,
Tammy Hill, John Domey, Kyle Barnes, Anthony Scarbraugh and Chris Pullinger and Eric Kulz from DWQ as well as, Guy
Pearce, and Tim Baumgartner from EEP as well as Jeff Becker from Greene Environmental and Kevin Tweedy from Baker
Engineering.
This site is in its fourth year of monitoring and the monitoring reports all state that vegetation criteria are being met across the
entire site. In most cases, trees seem to be growing well throughout the site.
From the field visit, these features are clearly ditches rather than stream subject to the Neuse River Buffer rules. This site is
appropriate for nutrient offset credit but not for buffer credit. The ledger should be adjusted accordingly.
ITEMS TO ADDRESS:
We acknowledge and concur that the project will have no buffer mitigation credit as denoted in your
modified ledger dated June 3, 2009.
cc: Matt Matthews
401 OversighUExpress Review Permitting Unit
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