20120285_Meeting Minutes_20061215

GASTON EAST-WEST
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Turnpike Agency
Coordination Meeting
December 15, 2006
AGENDA
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1. Project History
2. Recently Completed Studies
3. Ongoing Studies
4. Next Steps Towards DEIS
Project Timeline
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• 2001 - NEPA Studies Began
+ 2002 (July) - Concurrence Pt 1
(Purpose and Need)
• 2003 (Sep & Dec) - Public
Workshops
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Project Timeline
• 2005 (Feb) - Project adopted by
NCTA as a candidate toll facility
• 2005 (Sep) - Concurrence Pt 2
(Detailed Study Alternatives)
• 2006 (Jan & Feb)- Public Works
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Study
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Detailed Stu_y Alternatives
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16 Detailed Study Alternatives
Workshops
• Held Jan 31, Feb 1&2 2006 at 3 locations
study area
• 819- Total attendance
• 185 - Comment lorms received
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Workshops
i Concerns
f Impacts to churches and homes
Visual/noise impacts to Crowder's Mtn
State Park
Potential historic and archaeological
resources
Bald eagles and water quality in
?R Brown's Cove
AGENDA
r3 r Mussel Screening Report
r Protected Plant Surveys a . Ongoing Studies
+ Survey Conducted by NCDOT ONE
Unit (October 2005)
Conducted screening for C.,rulrr,a heelsplitter
in September 2005
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4y 28 potential stream crossings evaluated
8 named streams surveyed using typical
mussel screening protocols: Oates Creek,
Bessemer Branch, Myrtle Creek, Crowders
r Creek, McGill Branch, Mill Creek. Catawba
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Creek, Beaverdam Creek
L + Biological Conclusion - No Effect
About 60% supported new highway
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:+ Michaux's sumac and Smooth
Conef lower (Mecklenburg only)
o Schweinitz's sunflower (both count
- Report prepared by PBS&J and 4
subconsultants (March 2006)
our Survey Segments
(1-Mocklenburg, 2 thru 4 - Uaslon)
J11 Survey Segment 2 - one small outcrop of
Schweinitz s sunflower
• Not likely to be impacted
Traffic Forecasts -
Non-Toll Scenarios
- New Regional Model Used
- 2030 Design Year
r 6 Representative Alternative
Alignments Modeled
• Build Volumes highest in Belmont
Range is 33,000 ADT on west end to
105,000 ADT on east end
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- Final documentation submitted for
review by NCDOT
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Traffic Forecasts -
October 2006
+ Prepared by Wilbur-Smith &
a Study available online
• www.ncturnpike.org
AGENDA
y. Ongoing Studies
Historic Architecture
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?,. Archaeology
c Natural Resources
4. Next Steps Towards DEIS

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Historic Architecture
Mattson, Alexander and
Associates preparing Phase II
Study
Initial field work complete
Identified 18 properties likely
eligible for the National Register
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Historic Architecture

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Red stars show locations of resources likely
eligible for the National Register of Hisloric Places
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Archaeology
• Coastal Carolina Research
conducting study
• Background research and field
} mapping completed
• Scheduled to begin field work
shortly (late Dec/early Jan)
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Found a survey of cemetery
L locations in Gaston County
Natural Resources
• Wetlands and Streams
SBME (West portion)
JH Carter and Assoc (Central portion)
Catena Group (East portion)
• Bald Eagle Surveys - Earth Tech
Biotic Communities - Earth Tech
• Natural Systems Report - Earth Tech
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1 • Surveys finding more streams than
shown in the existing databases used
to create the land suitability map
• Field data collection progressing
+ No major problems
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Bald Eagle Surveys
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conducted by
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Planned for
December 19-20
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Biotic Communities
Completed, being compiled, and
being brought into GIS
i Predominant vegetative
communities
Mixed Pine-Hardwood
Disturbed Areas
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I base communities are present in about equal area
and make up about 701). of the corridor area.
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AGENDA
XO,,"`,Next Steps Towards DEIS
Design and Impact Evaludtf
$pecial Technical Studf'_-
Desig and Impact
Evaluations
Roadway designs will be refined using
updated mapping and results of
surveys and results of traffic
operations analyses
Hydraulic studies can begin
concurrent with roadway design
i' Traffic forecasts for toll scenarios can
- begin concurrent with designs
Evaluations
ICI and CIA studies can begin
prior to completion of roadway
designs
Noise, air quality, jurisdictional
resources, and other impact
evaluations will be completed
using roadway designs
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Special Technical Studies
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