20141310 Ver 2_Project Update_20210125

Strickland, Bev
From: Pete Goria <petegoria1 @gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 11:17 AM
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Cc: Patrick Smith; Homewood, Sue; Bob Zarzecki; Alexander Elkan
Subject: [External] Re: RE_ Nationwide Permit 39 (After -the- Fact)_ McConnell Center - Lot 9_
McLeansville_ Guilford County_ SAW-2018-02038; DWR Project No. 2014-1310v2;
(S&EC Project No. 13795)
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Good Morning David:
This is an up date of the activities performed since the extension that you granted in December. As you know we have
experienced extremely wet weather in December and January and we have been monitoring the site almost on a daily
basis in anticipation of getting our work completed. We finally received a break in the wet weather this past week and
on Saturday January 23 our crew went to work to finalize our construction work. With no rain and the frozen ground we
were able to install all of the required riprap and stabilize the area at the dam breach. I will send you pictures of the
completed work in a separate email. The entire site is now well stabilized and in excellent condition. Basically all we
have left to complete is sowing the wetland mix and removing the baffles which we left in for extra erosion control until
the restored wetland area is seeded.
Our Landscaper is Sides Seeding & Erosion Control in Lexington N C - Dennis Houle.
Dennis has the wetland mix on hand and is ready to complete his work when the weather permits. Talking with Dennis
he feels this is not the best time to plant for several reasons.
The wet weather ( raining again today) hampers him in doing a proper job in addition to the cold and freezing weather
and for this reason has asked me to request an extension so that his company can do a satisfactory job with good results
for USACE. He feels that late February would be the best time ( hopefully dry) to complete his work and get the
germination started in March. It would be greatly appreciated if you would extend to March 15 for completion of the
seeding and mulching.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Pete
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On Dec 16, 2020, at 3:51 PM, Bailey, David E CIV USARMY CESAW (USA)
<[e-mail]> wrote:
Hi Patrick, and thank you for your email notification. The reasoning for your extension request is
rational, and the Corps hereby extends the required completion date to 1/31/2021, for activities
referenced by Special Conditions 2 and 4 of our NWP 39 verification dated 4/21/2020. Please continue
to keep us informed as these activities proceed, and let me know if you have any questions.
-Dave Bailey

David E. Bailey, PWS
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US Army Corps of Engineers
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From: Patrick Smith <[e-mail]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 2:43 PM
To: Bailey, David E CIV USARMY CESAW (USA) <[e-mail]>; Homewood, Sue
<[e-mail]>
Cc: Pete Goria <[e-mail]>; Bob Zarzecki <[e-mail]>; Alexander Elkan
<AELKAN @ brookspierce.com>
Subject: [Non-DoD Source] RE_ Nationwide Permit 39 (After -the -Fact)_ McConnell Center - Lot 9_
McLeansville_ Guilford County_ SAW-2018-02038; DWR Project No. 2014-1310v2; (S&EC Project No.
13795)
Dave & Sue:
On behalf of our Client (the permittee for the subject project) we wanted to
provide you an update on the project.
If you'll recall the permit approvals for this project included conditions that
restoration work (removal of fill from the approximately 1.58-acre area pond
bottom, etc.) was to "be completed within 120 days of receipt of all necessary
federal, state and local approvals/permits". The most recent approval (from
DEMLR for a modification to the erosion control plan was received on 08/25/2020
meaning that the required completion date would be 12/23/2020.
As you are aware the non -permitted fill has been removed from the pond
bottom. To date the riser and outlet barrel have both been removed (the riser's
concrete anti -floatation block has yet to be removed but will be) and the dam
breach and breach lining are under construction. Unfortunately the multiple large
rainfall events have made work impractical on many days and has delayed
progress significantly.
Based on a discussion with Pete Goria yesterday he anticipates that, assuming we
get some extended dry weather, it will likely take until the end of January to
complete the necessary grading, install the rest of the breach lining, remove
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concrete anti -floatation block, baffles, etc. and stabilize (seed and mulch) the
disturbed area including the restored wetland area. We'll continue to keep you
posted on project progress.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Patrick
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