20091165 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20091124

ALTWTY;
NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins Dee Freeman
Governor
Director
Secretary
November 24, 2009
CERTIFIED MAIL:
Cert. #7009 2250 0000 9252 5549
Duck Land Company, LLC
Attn: Mr. Douglas Twiddy
1181 Duck Road
Kitty Hawk, NC 27949
DWQ Project # 09-1165
Currituck County
Subject Property: Lot #21 Section 2 Swan Beach Subdivision, Corolla Village
Currituck Sound, Pasquotank River Basin
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Twiddy:
On October 30, 2009, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application
dated October 28, 2009, to impact 0.02 acres of wetlands to construct the proposed
single-family residential. The DWQ has determined that your application was
incomplete and/or provided inaccurate information as discussed below. The DWQ will
require additional information in order to process your application to impact protected
wetland on the 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 SL 2008-152 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. Impact Justification (Avoidance and Minimization)
The PCN application received in this Office states that Duck Landing Company,
LLC is owner of lot #21. This Office believes that the impacts labeled on the
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plans as W-1 can be moved or reconfigured to avoid the impacts to the wetlands.
Please revise the plans to avoid the impacts. It is therefore necessary to
demonstrate Avoidance and Minimization of wetland impacts from the proposed
single-family residence.
2. Mitigation
To comply with Session Law 2008-152, a statement of compliance must be
submitted to this Office to document that a no known private mitigation bank with
the requested credit type located in the hydrologic unit where the impact will take
place exists.
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withdrawn.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 Anthony
Scarbraugh of the Washington Regional Office at 252-948-3957 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,
Athony S rbraugh
Enviro ental Specialist
Surface Water Protection Section
"Washington Regional Office
cc: Warren D. Eadus, Quible & Associates, P.C.
401 Oversight/Express Permitting Unit
Kyle Barnes, USACE Washington Regulatory Field Office
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Filename: 09-1165