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Home My WebLink About20201865 Ver 1_Meeting Request Review_20201130ID#* 20201865 Version* 1 Regional Office* Central Office - (919) 707-9000 Reviewer List* Erin Davis Pre -Filing Meeting Request submitted 11/30/2020 Contact Name * Jordan Hessler Contact Email Address* jhessler@wildlandseng.com Project Name* Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site Project Owner* NC DEQ - Division of Mitigation Services (POC: Lin Xu, lin.xu@ncdenr.gov) Project County* Macon Owner Address: Street Address 217 West Jones St., Suite 3000A Address Line 2 aty State / Province / Region Raleigh North Carolina Fbstal / Zip Code Country 27603 United States Is this a transportation project?* r Yes r No Type(s) of approval sought from the DWR: W 401 Water Quality Certification - F 401 Water Quality Certification - Regular Express r- Individual Permit r- Modification r- Shoreline Stabilization Does this project have an existing project ID#?* r Yes r No Please list all existing project ID's associated with this projects.* RFP# 16-20190304 Contract# 0304-01 Do you know the name of the staff member you would like to request a meeting with? Erin Davis Please give a brief project description below.* The project is proposing to provide cold stream credits within the Little Tennessee River Basin Catalog Units 06010202, 06010203, and 06010204 at the Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site in Macon County, NC (CU 06010202). Provides restoration of three reaches of Jones Creek and several unnamed tributaries to provide approximately 4,520 cold stream credits. The Site is an active cattle farm with horses, and the streams are extensively impacted by livestock grazing. Livestock currently has access to all of the Site streams. Site streams are in various stages of evolution, with some streams being severely incised but not widened, and other streams being widened and lacking in bedform features due to manipulation, livestock access, and excessive sedimentation. Extensive streambank erosion is present, including a partially breached and failing dam embankment on a small pond. While instream habitats such as riffles and pools are present on most reaches, they are impacted by embeddedness from bank erosion. Riparian buffers, where present, typically consist of a single row of trees. More than half the length of UT1, UT2, UT3, UT3A, and UT3C, as well as Jones Creek, Reaches 1 & 3 have no buffer. Only Jones Creek Reach 2 and UT3B have a continuous buffer. This project will improve water quality and ecology through riparian buffer establishment, stream and habitat restoration, exclusion of livestock and farm equipment, and enhancement of crossings to reduce hydrologic impacts and aquatic passage barriers. IRT post contract site walk scheduled for January 2021, no specific date yet. Please give a couple of dates you are available for a meeting. 1 /6/2021 1 /19/2021 1 /28/2021 Please attach the documentation you would like to have the meeting about. Pre -filing Cornbread Valley.pdf 16.98MB pdf only By digitally signing below, I certify that I have read and understood that per the Federal Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule the following statements: • This form completes the requirement of the Pre -Filing Meeting Request in the Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule. • I understand by signing this form that I cannot submit my application until 30 calendar days after this pre -filing meeting request. • I also understand that DWR is not required to respond or grant the meeting request. Your project's thirty -day clock started upon receipt of this application. You will receive notification regarding meeting location and time if a meeting is necessary. You will receive notification when the thirty -day clock has expired, and you can submit an application. Signature Submittal Date 11/30/2020 Reviewer Meeting Request Decision Has a meeting been scheduled?* r Yes r No , Or IM Gillespie -Harrison Farms Slagle Farm NC Clean Water Management Trust Fund Project jCR Mainspring Conservation / Trust Easement 401* ■ _ '� ` { NC Clean Water Management Trust Fund Project o , } Ervin Patton House - r 64 Cartoogechaye Creek Aquatic Habitat 02020030• Virginia Jones House Milksick Knob . ._ Relax Inn = Dobson Mountain, U / nion United Methodist Nantahala National Forest - Church Parsonage Nantahala Ranger District •. 1 Project Location f j (Catchment ID 19736155) 1 Runaway Knob Registered Little Tennessee River Aquatic Habitat Heritage Area a Foster Knob/Rockyface Mountain ! - - Nantahala National Forest'- INantahala Ranger District eemore Game an ) f Appalachian L TheNdGLand Traih Lee Creek Seep1 f/ Dedicated Nature Preserve 1 _ f 0102o2r^ Dr. Alexander C. Brabson House ' os, ` Mainspring Conservation Trust Easement ` . Albert Mountain/Pinnacle Mountain , ` Nantahala River Wetlands , ` Otto School ' 06010� 0'S� Macon ♦ JS Clay 0 Project Location QLittle Tennessee 02 River Basin 0 NC Historic Preservation Areas Water Quality TRA Five Mile Radius j_ _� Hydrologic Unit Code (14-Digit) Significant Natural Heritage Areas Habitat TRA County Line _ Water Supply Watershed NC Natural Heritage Program Managed Areas Hydrology TRA Municipalities Targeted Local Watersheds Airports �303d Listed Streams VVWWILDLANDS ENGINEERING Figure 1 Vicinity Map 0 0.75 1.5 Miles Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site I I I I t Little Tennessee River Basin (06010202) Macon County, NC Proposed Conservation Easement '` Al " a Project Parcels Existing Livestock Pasture , i Perennial Stream — Intermittent Stream QQ Reach Breaks - Non -Project Stream Linear Seep `1 Aggradation Erosion Q'. � ^tee ' ,•.;, ifl � 1 � Incision m� Existing Berm Q Knick Point rl ❑ Existing Springbox Existing Culvert��` , Existing Utility Line Existing Utility Pole ��,,r r"�•°g �•� t;� ,F �>�, 'y Livestock Trampled Area At It d 4166 y_ i r, �y Lag 0Ad ON i s WILDLANDS 0 300 Feet ENGINEERING Scale Bar 1 " Figure 2 Site Map Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site Little Tennessee River Basin 06010202 Macon County, NC IP Proposed Conservation Easement Project Parcels 1 ► ; - 1 "alp ... O, Ch OF, 1 , J '.000 -� i If 1 J A U � r _ Prentiss, NC USGS 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle �, r Figure 3 USGS Topographic Map WILD LANDS Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site 0 300 600 Feet Little Tennessee River Basin 06010202 %ZV ENGINEERING I I I I —J t Macon County, NC Figure 4 Watershed Map WILD LANDS Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site ENGINEERING Little Tennessee River Basin 06010202 0 1 2 Miles i I 1 1 M Macon County, NC Figure 5 Soils Map ` WILD LANDS Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site 0 300 600 Feet Little Tennessee River Basin 06010202 ENGINEERING Macon County, NC 19 Aerial Photography