20180264 Ver 1_RE Notice of Initial Credit Release_20200611

Strickland, Bev
From: Tsomides, Harry
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 9:57 AM
To: Davis, Erin B
Cc: Kim Browning; Tugwell, Todd J CIV USARMY CESAW (US)
Subject: RE: [External] Notice of Initial Credit Release/ NCDMS Deep Meadow Mitigation Site/
SAW-2012-01077/ Union Co.
Ok great, thanks.
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Harry Tsomides
Project Manager
Division of Mitigation Services
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Tel. [phone]
Harry.Tsomidesa-ncdenr.gov
5 Ravenscroft Drive
Suite 102
Asheville, NC 28801
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From: Davis, Erin B
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 9:51 AM
To: Tsomides, Harry <[e-mail]>
Cc: Kim Browning <[e-mail]>; Tugwell, Todd J CIV USARMY CESAW (US)
<[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [External] Notice of Initial Credit Release/ NCDMS Deep Meadow Mitigation Site/ SAW-2012-01077/ Union
Co.
Hi Harry,
That's an acceptable compromise. And as Wildlands notes, please have them include their response in the MY1 Report.
Many thanks,
Erin
Erin B. Davis, PWS
Stream & Wetland Mitigation Specialist
401 & Buffer Permitting Branch
Division of Water Resources
Department of Environmental Quality
919-817-0360 cell
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From: Tsomides, Harry
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 9:30 AM
To: Davis, Erin B <[e-mail]>
Cc: Kim Browning <[e-mail]>; Tugwell, Todd J CIV USARMY CESAW (US)
<Todd.J.Tugwel I @ usace.a rmy. mi I>
Subject: FW: [External] Notice of Initial Credit Release/ NCDMS Deep Meadow Mitigation Site/ SAW-2012-01077/ Union
Co.
Good morning Erin,
Here is Wildlands response to your gauge comment on Deep Meadow. We will move forward like this unless you have
an objection. I just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page moving ahead.
Thanks!
DWR Comments, Erin Davis:
Groundwater gauges 3 and 11 appear to be located outside of wetland reestablishment credit areas. If these gauges
were placed to demonstrate additional wetland area, that's fine. But DWR would like groundwater gauges installed
within the reestablishment areas W-E6 and W-E8 as specified in the approved mitigation plan to demonstrate success of
the wetland hydroperiod performance standard.
WHdiands response (to be included in MY1 report):
We are aware that the wells lie just outside the proposed wetland boundary. The reason that this occurred is that we
kept hitting refusal at around 2-ft deep when we tried to install each of them as designated on the Monitoring Map of
the Mit Plan. The locations of the wells are as close as we could get to the Mit Plans monitoring map locations. Based
on site conditions we think that the current well locations will meet the success criteria outlined in the performance
standards (10% of the growing season). If after the first year of monitoring, one or both of these two wells are failing to
meet our the performance standards outlined in the Mit Plan or are not likely to continue to trend toward that goal, we
will install an additional well within the proposed wetland boundary to monitor hydrology in addition to existing gage for
the wetland of concern. However, the location of the newly installed wells may be further away from the Mit Plan's
gage location than the existing gage.
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Harry Tsomides
Project Manager
Division of Mitigation Services
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Tel. [phone]
Harry.Tsomidesa-ncdenr.gov
5 Ravenscroft Drive
Suite 102
Asheville, NC 28801
Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the
North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

From: Browning, Kimberly D CIV USARMY CESAW (USA) [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:28 AM
To: Tsomides, Harry <[e-mail]>; Aaron Earley <[e-mail]>; Shawn Wilkerson
<swiIkerson@wild landseng.com>; Stanfill, Jim <[e-mail]>; Wiesner, Paul <[e-mail]>;
Baumgartner, Tim <[e-mail]>
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Davis, Erin B <[e-mail]>; Wilson, Travis W. <[e-mail]>; Munzer, Olivia
<[e-mail]>; Merritt, Katie <[e-mail]>; Bowers, Todd <[e-mail]>;
Byron Hamstead (byron [e-mail]) <byron [e-mail]>; Crumbley, Tyler A CIV USARMY CESAW
(USA) <[e-mail]>; McLendon, C S CIV USARMY CESAW (USA)
<[e-mail]>; Haywood, Casey M CIV USARMY CESAW (USA)
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Subject: [External] Notice of Initial Credit Release/ NCDMS Deep Meadow Mitigation Site/ SAW-2012-01077/ Union Co.
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Good morning,
The 15-Day Record Drawing review for the Deep Meadow Mitigation Site (SAW-2012-01077) ended May 30, 2020. Per
Section 332.8(o)(9) of the 2008 Mitigation Rule, this review followed the streamlined review process. All comments
received from the NCIRT are incorporated in this email. Please address IRT concerns in the MY1 Report. There were nc
objections to issuing the initial credit release. Please find attached the current signed ledger.
DWR Comments, Erin Davis:
Groundwater gauges 3 and 11 appear to be located outside of wetland reestablishment credit areas. If these gauges
were placed to demonstrate additional wetland area, that's fine. But DWR would like groundwater gauges installed
within the reestablishment areas W-E6 and W-E8 as specified in the approved mitigation plan to demonstrate success of
the wetland hydroperiod performance standard.
EPA Comments, Todd Bowers:
Thank you for the opportunity to review and provide feedback on the Deep Meadow Mitigation Site MY 0/As-Built
Report as a component of the North Carolina Division of Mitigation Services In -Lieu Fee program modification (SAW-
2012-01077). The project, located in Union County NC, restored, enhanced and preserved a total of 4,365 linear feet of
perennial stream and rehabilitated 0.58 acres and re-established 8.26 acres of riparian wetlands. The project is providing
2,838.933 stream mitigation units and 8.590 wetland mitigation units for the Yadkin River Basin Hydrologic Unit Code
03040105 (Yadkin 05). The Site construction and as -built surveys were completed between September and November
2019 and planting and baseline vegetation data collection occurred between November 2019 and January 2020. After a
thorough review, the EPA Region 4 Oceans, Wetlands and Stream Protection Branch has no comments or concerns with
the MYO Report for the Deep Meadow mitigation site. The report appears to be in order and presents a well built and
thus far, well performing site with much potential for functional uplift of aquatic resources.
Please contact the mitigation office if you have any questions.
Thanks
Kim
Kim Browning
Mitigation Project Manager, Regulatory Division I U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
3331 Heritage Trade Dr, Ste. 105 1 Wake Forest, NC 27587 1 919.554.4884 x60
BUILDING STRONG