NCDOT M-0540A_ NC-24 Living Shoreline Project

Carpenter,Kristi
From:Mellor, Colin
Sent:Wednesday, January 06, 2021 8:50 AM
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Subject:NCDOT M-0450A, NC-24 Living Shoreline Project
Attachments:M0540A_NC 24 SOS.pdf
All,

Attached is a start of study letter for NCDOT’s project M-0450A along NC 24 just outside Swansboro, NC. Many copied
here are already aware of the project, but some may not be. The project proposes to use resilient living shoreline
techniques to protect eroded areas of the NC 24 causeway/roadway embankment immediately southeast of Swansboro.
The project is a collaborative effort between NCDOT, the NC Coastal Federation, and SWCA Environmental Consultants.
This team was the recipient of a $1.68M National Fish and Wildlife Federation grant to help design and construct the
project.

An agency meeting for this project was tentatively scheduled for March of last year but the project was put on hold.
Within the next couple of days, I will follow this email with some potential virtual meeting times so that we can get the
project moving forward again. There is a significant amount of overlap in agency representation between the
representatives that NCCF would usually coordinate with, and those that NCDOT would usually coordinate with. NCDOT
will be preparing the environmental documentation and permit applications for this project but we welcome the
participation of anyone familiar with this type of project. If there are others that need to be included in the coordination
of this project please let me know.

I aim to schedule the agency meeting before the end of January.

Call or email with any questions.

Colin

Colin Mellor
Eastern Regional Team Lead (Div. 1 - 6, & 8)
Environmental Policy Unit
North Carolina Department of Transportation

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