20100988 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20110607

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 6023
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Dean Green, President
Greensboro Auto Auction, Inc.
3907 West Wendover Ave
Greensboro, NC 27409
Re: Section 401 Water Quality Certification application
Dear Mr. Green:
June 7, 2011
DWQ# 10-0988
Guilford County
On May 12, 2011, the North Carolina Division of Water Quality (Division) received additional information
related to your application for a 401 General Water Quality Certification to impact 295 linear feet of an
unnamed tributary to South Buffalo Creek for the 4009 West Wendover Ave Retail and Auto Auction Parking
Project in Greensboro, NC in Guilford County. Additional information is again 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. The Division has been notified by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that they have
received comments during the public notice period and will request your response to the comments.
When you respond to the USACE, please copy the Division of Water quality also.
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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Dean Green
DWQ# 10-0988
June 7, 2011
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2. Per our discussion in a meeting on February 8, 2011, we still require more detailed documentation
regarding avoidance and minimization of stream impacts for this project. This should include stream
relocation, retaining walls, alternative designs and layouts of the buildings and parking areas, etc,
including modifying the type of use of the property. The documentation submitted on May 12, 2011
and the plan sheets submitted to the USACE for the public notice do not adequately address
avoidance and minimization. The application documentation indicates a "future restaurant". Please
specify what type of restaurant is being proposed and show the building location on the plans.
Please also indicate the required parking per Greensboro City Ordinance. Please clearly show which
parking spaces are dedicated to the future restaurant on the plans (highlight, hatching, label, etc).
Please also clearly designate the parking spaces dedicated for Kaplan University and for the
Greensboro Auto Auction on the plans. In addition, please show alternative layouts of the property
that have been considered which may reduce the stream impacts. These should include an analysis
of an alternative use of the restaurant space or an alternative type of restaurant that may require less
space, or an alternative layout of the property that would locate parking away from the stream.
Please also consider retaining walls on both sides of the stream to minimize the impact length to the
stream.
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.
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: Andy Williams, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Raleigh Regulatory Field Office (via email)
Bruce Nooe, PE, CPT Engineering (via email)
Virginia Spillman, City of Greensboro (via email)
DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office
DWQ Wetlands/401 Unit