20201664 Ver 1_VIABILITY-ASSESSMENT-REQUEST-FORM__20201103

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NCDWR - 401 & Buffer Permitting Branch
Attn: Katie Merritt
SEND COMPLETE REQUEST TO: 1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
or by email to [e-mail]

BUFFER MITIGATION &/OR NUTRIENT OFFSET
SITE VIABILTY ASSESSMENT REQUEST
(Form must be complete and all attachments included to process request)
☐ BUFFER MITIGATION ☒ NUTRIENT OFFSET ☐ BOTH

PARCEL/SITE DETAILS

Has anyone from DWR or the USACE visited the site in the past 12 months? ☐ YES ☒ NO
Has a riparian buffer or stream call been performed by Division of Water Resources staff on the
subject site? ☐ YES ☒ NO
Is the project receiving any state or federal grant money? ☐ YES ☒ NO
Are there any State, Local or Federal Permits associated with the subject site? ☐ YES ☒ NO
PARCEL/SITE ATTACHMENTS (provide items 1-4 as a separate attachment, not to exceed 10 pages)
1. Detailed description of the site including existing site conditions and Aerial Site Map;
2. Include a timeline of land uses and land use changes from 1990-Present;
3. Most recent 1:24,000 scale USGS Topo Map showing the site; AND
4. Most recent published NRCS county soil survey showing site;

Name Barrett Jenkins
Company Restoration Systems, LLC
Address 1101 Haynes Street, Suite 211, Raleigh, NC 27604
Phone [phone]
Email [e-mail]
Do you have the right to access the property? Attachment 1 ☐ YES ☐ NO
Proposed Site Name Bells Bridge
Address Bells Bridge Road City: Scotland Neck
Site Coordinates 36.070288, -77.452140 County: Halifax
River Basin Tar-Pam 8-Digit HUC: 03020102
Sub-watershed (if in
Jordan Lake or Falls)

Will this be part of a stream or wetland project/bank? ☐ YES ☒ NO

RS – Site Viability Request, Bells Bridge Nutrient Offset Site Page 1

Restoration Systems' (RS) requests a viability assessment for a single tract, 358-acre parcel, in Halifax
County, NC, for the development of a nutrient offsite bank parcel. A landowner authorization letter is
attached along with the following detailed description of the parcel, including a historical land use
analysis. This property is near the White Farm 125 site recently submitted for review and owned by the
same family. The parcel has been in the family for approximately 5 generations.

Site Description
The parcel, a +/- 358-acre tract utilized for row crop production, is located in the Scotland Neck Township
5.25 miles north of Bath, NC between highways 258 and 125 on Bells Bridge Road. Via historical mapping,
LiDAR analysis, and in-field review, at appears historic site features have been modified to maximize row
crop production on the parcel. Agricultural use predates 1994 based on review of Google Earth aerial
photography. The property drains to Deep Creek.

Water Quality
The site is located within the Tar-Pamlico River Basin 14-digit USGS Cataloging Unit 03020102-070030.
Deep Creek is classified by NCDWR as C:NSW where class C is for uses such as secondary recreation
where human body contact with water takes place in an infrequent, unorganized, or incidental matter
and supplemental classification NSW represents Nutrient Sensitive Waters needing additional nutrient
management due to being subject to excessive growth of microscopic or macroscopic vegetation.

Physiography
The site is at the transition of the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Level IV Ecoregion 65m,
Southeastern Plains Rolling Coastal Plain to 63e, Middle Atlantic coastal Plain, Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods of
North Carolina.

Land Use
The site has been cleared of native forest vegetation, streams have been relocated, ditched, and
straightened, and groundwater hydrology has been lowered due to the ditching of site streams. Corn,
peanuts, and cotton are typical agricultural crops.

List of Attached Figures
Figure 1 – Site Location Map
Figure 2 – Feature Overview
Figure 3 – 2019 USGS Quad (Hobgood)
Figure 4 – 1995 NRCS Soil Survey
Figure 5 – LIDAR Overview
Figure 7 – 1993 Google Earth Imagery
Figure 8 – 1998 NCDOT Historic Imagery
Figure 9 – 2011 Google Earth Imagery
Figure 10 – 2018 Google Earth Imagery

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Source: Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community
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0 0.15 0.3 0.45 0.60.075 Miles ¯Bells Bridge2019 USGS TOPO HOBGOOD 1:24,000Halifax County, N C
0 0.15 0.3 0.45 0.60.075 Miles ¯Bells Bridge2006 NRCS Soil SurveyHalifax County, N C
0 0.09 0.18 0.27 0.360.045 Miles ¯Bells BridgeLIDARHalifax County, N C
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