20070495 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20070327

~~F WATF9Q Michael F. Easley, Governor
`(~ ~i William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
~~.- North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
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~ ..~ Alan W. Klimek, P.E. Director
Division of Water Quality
March 27, 2007
DWQ Project # 07-0495
Guilford County
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CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Terrapin Ridge, LLC
Attn: Mr. Dick Burditt
7221 Belmont Drive
Trinity, NC 27370
Subject Property: Terrapin Ridge
Little Alamance Creek [030603, 16-19-3-(0.3), WSIV, NSW]
REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Burditt:
On March 16, 2007, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated March 12, 2007 to
impact 0.056 acres of 404/wetland and temporarily impact 201inear feet of perennial stream to construct the
residential subdivision. 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, streams and/or buffers 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 I SA NCAC 2H .0506 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. Per Condition No. 3 of GC3631, "Irrespective of other application thresholds in this General
Certification, all impacts to perennial waters and their associated buffers require written approval
from DWQ since such impacts are allowable as provided in 1SA NCAC 2B. .0212 (WS-I), 2B .0213
(WS-II), 2B .0214 (WS-III) and 2B .0215 (WS-IV). Only water dependent activities, public projects,
and structures with di minimus increases in impervious surfaces will be allowed as outlined in those
rules. All other activities require a variance from the delegated local government and/or the NC
Environmental Management Commission (EMC) before the 401 Water Quality Certification can be
processed. In addition, a 30 foot wide vegetative buffer for low density development or a 100 foot
vegetative buffer for high density development must be maintained adjacent to all perennial waters,
except for the allowances as provided under the Water Supply Watershed Protection Rules. For the
purpose of this condition, perennial waters are defined as those shown as perennial waters on the most
recent USGS 1:24,000 topographic map or as otherwise determined by the local government studies."
Please resubmit five copies of your application package and a fee made payable to "DWQ" for $200.
Under Condition Number 4 of GC 3631, "Additional site-specific stormwater management requirements
may be added to this Certification at DWQ's discretion on a case by case basis for projects that have or
are anticipated to have impervious cover of greater than 30 percent. (Furthermore, it is the DWQ's
policy that areas of concentrated development within a project must treat stormwater runoff
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401 Oversight/Express Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
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Site-specific stormwater management shall be designed to remove 85% TSS according to the latest
version of DWQ's stormwater Best Management Practices manual at a minimum. Additionally, in
watersheds within one mile and draining to 303(d) listed waters, as well as watersheds that are classified
as nutrient sensitive waters (NSW), water supply waters (WS), trout waters (Tr), high quality waters
(HQW), and outstanding resource waters (ORW), the Division shall require that extended detention
wetlands, bio-retention areas, and ponds followed by forested filter strips (designed according to latest
version of the NCDENR stormwater Best Management Practices Manual) be constructed as part of the
stormwater management plan when asite-specific stormwater management plan is required. Unless
specified otherwise in the approval letter, the final, written stormwater management plan shall be
approved in writing by the Division of Water Quality's Wetlands Unit before the impacts specified in
this Certification occur. The facilities must be designed to treat the runoff from the entire project,
unless otherwise explicitly approved by the Division of Water Quality. Also, the stormwater
management plan (as approved by the Wetlands Unit) shall be implemented before any permanent
building or other structure is occupied at the subject site. The structural stormwater practices as
approved by the Wetlands Unit as well as drainage patterns must be maintained in perpetuity. No
changes to the structural stormwater practices shall be made without written authorization from the
Division of Water Quality." Your site is in a NSW watershed and therefore based on your submitted
plans, you will need to submit stormwater BMP plans for bio-retention stormwater BMPs, constructed
wetland stormwater BMPs, or a combination of the two. Please submit your revised plans, worksheets
and Operations and Maintenance agreement.
Please contact the DWQ within three weeks of the date of this letter to verify that you have received this
letter and to provide us with a date that we may expect to receive this requested information. If we do not
receive this requested information within one week of the date you indicate it will be forthcoming, your
project will be withdrawn and you will need to reapply with a new application and a new fee. Please
contact me in writing and Daryl Lamb of the DWQ Winston Salem Regional Office. If we do not hear ftom
you within three 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 uthorized (at
this time) by the DWQ. Please call Mr. Ian McMillan or Cyndi Karoly at 919-733-1786 if y have any
questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter. /~
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Cyndi Karoly, Supervisor
O1 Oversight/Express Review Permits Unit
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cc: Charles Johnston; Environmental Services, Inc; 3661 Alamance Road; Burlington, NC 27215
Daryl Lamb, DWQ Winston Salem Regional Office
DLR, Winston Salem Regional Office
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Filename: 070495TerrapinRidge(Gu ilford)On_Hold