20140820 Ver 3_Determination Request_20210120

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Project Name:* Carraway Bluff Riparian Buffer and Nutrient Offset Full Delivery
and Bank Mitigation Site
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Is this request for a mitigation site?* r Yes r No
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Owner Information
Name on the Recorded Deed:* Norwood Bruce Howell and wife, Vickie Lee Howell
Responsible Party: EBK LLC a Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) entity
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Telephone Number: 919-922-92777
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Project Information
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Staff Name: Anthony Scarborough
Date of Visit: 8/25/2014
Site Information
Nearest Highway/Street:* Morgan Circle
Nearest Town:* Dudley
Nearest Named Stream:* Neuse
River Basin:* Neuse
County:*
Wayne
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Longitude:-78.010
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I LAND OWNER INFORMATION
(la) Name(s) on Recorded Deed
Norwood Bruce Howell and wife, Vickie Lee
Howell
(lb) Mailing Address
118 Oak Heights, Goldsboro, NC 27530
lc Telephone Number
919-922-9777
(1d) Email
brucehowell bellsouth.net
2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 Project Description
The Carraway Bluff Mitigation Project (Project) is a full delivery project contracted by the NC Division of
Mitigation Services (DMS) to deliver riparian buffer mitigation credits in the Neuse River Basin 03020201.
The Project is located in Wayne County, approximately five miles south of Goldsboro, NC (Figure 1) east
of US-117 in the Neuse River Basin. The Project consists of one parcel with a 25.09 conservation easement
and has a total drainage area of 4,223 acres (Figure 2a) and consists of mainly agricultural land and forests.
Project area is mainly managed agricultural land with forested areas along Carraway Creek and a very
narrow strip of forested buffer along the Neuse River (Figures 3a and 3b). The Project area, specifically,
has been cleared for agricultural purposes since at least 1950 (Figure 6). Between 1950 and 1998, some
reforestation has occurred along the stream and ditch features on the middle eastern and lower western
portions of the Project. The upper and middle western portions and lower eastern portion of the Project
remained cleared. In February 1998, the middle eastern side, lower western and eastern corners of the
Project area were cleared. The predominant crop planted in the adjacent fields are soybeans.
Water quality stressors currently affecting the Project include crop production and lack of forested riparian
buffer. Field evaluations determined all stream features, RES has determined all features to be either
intermittent/perennial or a ditch. Buffer restoration is proposed to increase water quality and ecological
function and protect these features and ditch features in perpetuity.
The Full Delivery DMS Project is comprised of the Neuse River, four stream channels (Carraway Creek,
BH1, BH2, and 131-13), and one ditch feature (D4) (Figure 3a). There are an additional three ditch features,
D1, D2, and D3, that enter the Full Deliver project area and drain directly to BH1, BH2, and Carraway
Creek. However, these ditches are too deep to be viable for buffer mitigation according to 15A NCAC 02B
.0295 (o) (8) (Figure 3b). Therefore, in order to further augment the benefits of this potential Project, RES
plans to protect all of these ditch features in a private nutrient offset mitigation bank in a separate
conservation easement (discussed in Section 4 below).
The Neuse River serves as the northernmost easement boundary and flows west to east along the property.
The current State water quality classifications for the Neuse River and Carraway Creek are Class C and
NSW. Class C waters are protected for uses such as secondary recreation, fishing, wildlife, fish
consumption, aquatic life including propagation, survival and maintenance of biological integrity, and
agriculture. Nutrient Sensitive Waters (NSW) represent a supplemental classification intended for waters
needing additional nutrient management due to being subject to excessive growth of microscopic or
macroscopic vegetation.
Carraway Bluff Mitigation Project
Neuse 01 DMS Full Delivery Buffer Site
And Neuse 01 Nutrient Bank
January 2021

Carraway Creek, a perennial named stream that serves as the easternmost easement boundary, originates
off the property to the south and flows north until its confluence with the Neuse River. All onsite unnamed
stream and ditch features ultimately flow into Carraway Creek within the project limits. Carraway Creek is
a prominent feature that runs through a bottomland hardwood stream/wetland complex. Carraway Creek
has a mature riparian area that extends beyond the limits of the easement on the right bank. The left bank
has a narrow mature riparian area that abuts active crop fields. Carraway Creeks left bank also includes
some areas of weedy, herbaceous vegetation and little to no woody vegetation as well as localized areas of
eroded meander bends.
BH1 is an intermittent, unnamed tributary on the western side of the project that drains into Carraway
Creek, after flowing northeast through active cropland. The reach is a modified natural stream and is
channelized and maintained to promote drainage for crop production. The banks of BH1 contain tall,
herbaceous vegetation and little to no woody vegetation. As BH1 enters the Carraway Creek floodplain,
the riparian area becomes buffered with mature forest. Chinese privet is present along the agricultural field
edge of the riparian area.
BH2 is an intermittent tributary stream on the western side of the project that drains to Carraway Creek. It
is similar to BH1 as a modified natural stream with channelization for agricultural drainage. The origin of
BH2 is a confluence of three agricultural ditches D3, D4 and a ditch from the adjacent conservation
easement. The banks contain weedy, herbaceous vegetation and little to no woody vegetation. As the reach
enters the Carraway Creek floodplain, the riparian area becomes sufficiently buffered although there are
instances of invasive species along the forest edge.
BH3 is an intermittent tributary on the southern portion of the project that drains into BH1. The origin of
the stream was determined to be approximately one-third of the way up the reach after multiple surface
water ditches connect into the feature. BH3 has been channelized and maintained to promote drainage of
the active crop fields and the riparian buffer condition is absent. The banks contain some maintained,
herbaceous vegetation and little to no woody vegetation.
The ditch feature D4 drains south into BH2. The feature is a manmade channel constructed for drainage
purposes and contains weedy, herbaceous vegetation and completely lacks a riparian buffer. The right bank
contains some larger trees but consists of mostly small planted stems from an adjacent nutrient and buffer
project. The crop fields extend to the top of the left bank.
2.2 Project Location
The Project is in Dudley in Wayne County, NC (Figure 1). To access the Project from the town of
Goldsboro, travel south on N John Street for 2.8 miles, then turn left on Arrington Bridge Road for 1.6
miles, then turn right on Pecan Road for 0.8 miles, then turn right. The latitude and longitude of the Project
is 35.330°N,-78.010°W
2.3 Service Area
This Bank will provide mitigation credits to offset unavoidable impacts to buffer resources within the Neuse
River Basin (8-digit USGS HUC 03020201, 14-digit HUC 03020201170060), and NC Division of Water
Resources (DWR) Sub -Basin 03-04-12.
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Neuse 01 DMS Full Delivery Buffer Site
And Neuse 01 Nutrient Bank
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3 EXISTING CONDITIONS
3.1 Existing Buffer Conditions
Currently, large portions of each feature (BHI, BH2, BH3 and D4) lack a riparian buffer. In areas where
the is no riparian buffer, row crop production extends to the edge of those features. Carraway Creek has a
mature disturbed forest within its riparian area, on both banks. The Neuse River also has a thin forested
buffer along both of its banks.
3.2 Vegetation and Wildlife
Currently, within the agricultural area of the Project, the vegetative cover is primarily comprised of fields
of soybean crops with small, disturbed areas of trees that are reminiscent of mixed-mesic hardwood forest
(Coastal Plain subtype) along the ditch features of the Project. The plant species that do exist in these areas
include sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua), red maple (Acer rubrum), water oak (Quercus nigra),
overcup oak (Quercus lyrata), river birch (Betula nigra), sweet bay (Magnolia virginiana), pepperbush
(Clethra alnifolia), and rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea).
The less disturbed forested floodplain along the right bank of Carraway Creek resembles a coastal plain
small stream swamp; however, due to croplands and ditching along the left bank of Carraway Creek within
the Project boundary, the natural hydrology and vegetation has been disturbed and displays species more
consistent with a mixed-mesic hardwood forest (Coastal Plain subtype). This area includes trees and
saplings such as red maple, white oak (Quercus alba), bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), persimmon
(Diospyros virginiana), and American elm (Ulmus americana). The herbaceous layer includes muscadine
(Vitis rotundifolia), Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans),
and false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica). Invasive species were noted in these areas and include mostly
Japanese stilt -grass (microstegium vimineum) and Chinaberry.
3.3 Constraints
The entire Project, with the exception of a small portion along the southern boundary, is in FEMA Zone
AE and also contains a FEMA regulatory floodway starting halfway up the proposed easement and
continuing north (Figure 5). FEMA mapping also shows a small .2% Chance Annual Flood zone at the
southern boundary of the Project. However, the Project does not propose any earthwork in these areas, so
it is not anticipated that FEMA permitting would be required. According to the NWI, a palustrine forested
broad-leaved deciduous, temporarily flooded (PFOIA) wetland encompasses most of the northern and
southern portions of the Project, with a small section of wetland in the middle. A palustrine forested broad-
leaved deciduous, seasonally flooded (PFO1C) wetland occurs along the north and middle eastern
boundaries of the Project (Figure 3a). There is an existing culvert near the top of BH1, one near the
confluence of BH1 and BH3, two south of BH3 along D1 (these will be a part of the private nutrient bank
Project), one large crossing along Carraway Creek north of BH1, and one in the middle of BH2. The Project
is located within a five -mile radius of Seymour Johnson Airforce Base (Figure 1).
3.4 Project Development
Buffer mitigation efforts in the Neuse River Basin will be accomplished through the planting,
establishment, and protection of a hardwood forest community. The result will be a riparian habitat that
functions to mitigate nutrient and sediments inputs from the surrounding upland, diffuse overland flow, and
restore and protect the natural vegetative communities that provide diverse habitat for wildlife in perpetuity.
Carraway Bluff Mitigation Project
Neuse 01 DMS Full Delivery Buffer Site
And Neuse 01 Nutrient Bank
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4 NUTRIENT BANK ADD -ON
4.1 Carraway Bluff Mitigation Project Phase 2
In conjunction with the DMS Carraway Bluff Mitigation Project, RES is proposing a nutrient offset
mitigation bank that will also service the same Neuse 01 watershed by providing nutrient offset credit. The
project will be named Carraway Bluff Mitigation Project Phase 2 (Phase 2). Phase 2 will be contained
within the same parcel as the DMS project and will incorporate some of the same features while also
including several additional features, namely ditches. Specifically, Phase 2 will widen the planted riparian
area along stream features of the DMS project (Neuse, BH1, BH2, BH3, D4), and it will plant and protect
riparian areas along two ditch features (D1, D2, D3) (Figure 3b).
D1
D1 is a ditched channel dug to promote drainage for row crop production. This elongated ditch drains into
BH3. The ditch banks contain herbaceous vegetation and little to no woody vegetation. Riparian buffer is
nonexistent on this reach as the ditch abuts row crops. D1 starts at the edge of the field at the southern end
of the parcel. It then flows east before taking a hard left turn at a road edge and flows north to the start of
BH3 on the north side of a culvert. At the start of D1, the channel depth was three feet and bank width was
eight feet. In the middle of the ditch, the channel depth was six feet and bank width was ten feet. Then just
before the start of BH1, the channel depth was three feet and bank width was six feet.
D2
D2 is a ditched channel dug to promote drainage for crop production and drains directly into Carraway
Creek. The ditch banks contain herbaceous vegetation and little to no woody vegetation. D2 starts at the
east side of a road where DI takes a hard left turn. D2 then flows east until it connects with Carraway Creek.
At this elbow, there is a culvert as D1 flows under the road and begins D2. At the confluence of D2 and
Carraway Creek, there is a healthy riparian buffer. During data collection, cross section data was taken on
this ditch, the channel depth was six feet and the bank width was ten feet.
D3
D3 is a ditch dug to promote drainage for crop production and flows north before it drains into the origin
of BH2. The left bank abuts an already established conservation easement that was used to generate riparian
buffer credit, while the right bank abuts active row crop fields. D3 and D4 meet at the beginning of BH2 as
BH2 flows east towards Carraway Creek. During data collection, cross section data was taken on this ditch
in two different spots. The first is near the middle of the ditch, where the channel depth was four feet and
bank width was eight feet. Another cross section was taken just before the confluence with D4 and BH2
where the channel depth was two feet and the bank width was eight feet.
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And Neuse 01 Nutrient Bank 4
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LANDOWNER AUTHORIZATION FORM
PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRITION:
Deed Book: 1332 Page: 130 County: Wayne
Parcel ID Number: 2597458424
Street Address: Genoa Rd,, Dudley. NC 28333
Property Owner (please print): Norwood Bruce Howell and wife. Vickie Lee Howell
Property Owner (please print):
The undersigned, registered property owner(s) of the above property, do hereby authorize
Resource Environmental Solutions, the NC Department of Environmental Quality, and the US
Army Corps of Engineers, their employees, agents or assigns to have reasonable access to the above
referenced property for the evaluation of the property as a potential stream, wetland and/or
riparian buffer mitigation project, including conducting stream and/or wetland determinations and
delineations, as well as issuance and acceptance of any required permit(s) or certification(s).
Property Owners(s) Address: 118 Oak Heights., Goldsboro. NC 27530
(if different from above)
Property Owner Telephone Number: (919 ) g Z 2 - 9 77 7
I/We hereby certify the above information to be true and accurate to the best of my/our knowledge.
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