20110281 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20110425

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NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins Dee Freeman
Governor Director Secretary
CERTIFIED MAIL: 7010 2780 0001 4221 5088
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Sterling Carroll
Carroll Companies Inc.
PO Box 1549
Boone, NC 28607
Re: Section 401 Water Quality Certification application
Dear Mr. Carroll:
April 25, 2011
DWQ# 11-0281
Watauga County
On March 28, 2011, the North Carolina Division of Water Quality (Division) received a copy of your application for a
401 General Water Quality Certification to impact streams and wetlands for the Sterling Carroll Nursery Site in Boone,
NC in Watauga County. Additional information is required in order that we may determine your project's compliance
with 15A NCAC 2H .0500. The Division will require this information in order to process your application to impact
protected wetlands and/or streams on the subject property. Therefore, we will place this project on hold as incomplete
until we receive this additional information, and if we do not receive the additional information requested below, we will
have to move toward denial of your application as required by 15A NCAC 2H .0506. Please provide the following
information so that we may continue to review your project.
1. Please provide additional information as to why the proposed nursery cannot be constructed on your adjacent
property (PIN 2921-91-5232-000) where no impacts to streams or wetlands would be required.
2. Please have a professional engineer sign and seal all plan sheets.
3. Please show the proposed topographic lines for the grassed line Swale and ensure that this swale meets the
requirements for conveyance-only swales in Chapter 14 of the BMP Manual.
4. Please show the drainage system for the access road and explain how the stormwater from the proposed
access road is being treated.
Please respond in writing within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter by sending a copy of this information to Sue
Homewood at the address on this letterhead, and a copy to Ian McMillan N. C. Division of Water Quality, Wetlands/401
Certification Unit, 1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1650. If you will not be able to provide the requested
information within that timeframe, please provide written confirmation that you intend to provide the requested
information, and include a specific timetable delineating when the requested materials will be provided. If we do not hear
from you in 30 calendar days, we will assume that you no longer want to pursue this project and we will consider the
project as returned.
North Carolina Division of Water Quality, Winston-Salem Regional Office
Location: 585 Waughtown St. Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27107
Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone] Customer Service: 1-877-623-6748
Internet: www.ncwaterquality.org
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Sterling Carroll
DWQ# 11-0281
April 25, 2011
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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 authorized (at this time) by the
Division. If you have any questions, please contact me at 336-771-4964 or [e-mail].
Sincerely,

Sue Homewood
DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office
cc: Tasha McCormick, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Raleigh Regulatory Field Office (via email)
John Vilas, ENV-ECS Inc (via email)
DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office
DWQ Wetlands/401 Unit