20201865 Ver 1_PreFiling Acknowledgement Email_20201204

Strickland, Bev
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Subject: Pre -Filing Meeting Request Acknowledgement - Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site -
20201865 Ver 1
Attachments: DWR Pre -Filing Meeting Request Form.pdf
The North Carolina Division of Water Resources has received the Pre -Filing Meeting Request Form for Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site
that you submitted on 11/30/2020. The ID number for that project is 20201865, Version 1.
Reviewer Contact Information:
Reviewer: Erin Davis
Email: [e-mail]
Reviewing Office: Central Office - [phone]
You will either be contacted by staff to set up a meeting or notified by email that the 30 calendar day clock has been reached and you
are allowed to submit your application.
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ID#* 20201865
Version* 1
Regional Office* Central Office - [phone]
Reviewer List* Erin Davis
Pre -Filing Meeting Request submitted 11/30/2020
Contact Name * Jordan Hessler
Contact Email Address* [e-mail]
Project Name* Cornbread Valley Mitigation Site
Project Owner* NC DEQ - Division of Mitigation Services (POC: Lin Xu, [e-mail])
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