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North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Charles Wakild, P.E. Dee Freeman
Governor Director Secretary
November 16, 2012
DWQ# 12 -0839
Forsyth County
Mr. Alan Temple
City of Winston Salem, Engineering Division
100 East First Street, Suite 235
Winston - Salem, NC 27102
APPROVAL of 401 Water Quality Certification with Additional Conditions
Dear Mr. Temple:
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to place fill and impact 358 linear feet of
jurisdictional streams to install the Little Creek Greenway Phase 1 in Winston - Salem, NC in Forsyth County, as
described in your application received by the Division on October 3, 2012, and additional information received October
31, 2012 and November 5, 2012. After reviewing your application, we have determined that this fill is covered by
General Water Quality Certification Number 3886, which can be viewed on our web site at
http: //h2o.enr. state. nc. us / ncwetlands /rd_wetlands_ certifcations.htm. This Certification allows you to use Nationwide
Permit Number 14 when it is issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In addition, you should secure any other
applicable federal, state or local permits before you proceed with your project, including (but not limited to) those
required by Sediment and Erosion Control (including trout buffer waivers as necessary), Non = Discharge, State
Stormwater, and Water Supply Watershed regulations. Also, this approval will expire when the accompanying 404
permits expire unless otherwise specified in the General Certification.
This approval is valid only for the purpose and design that you have described in your application. If you change your
project, you must notify us in writing, and you may be required to send us a new application for a new certification. If
the property is sold, the new owner must be given a copy of the Certification and approval letter and is thereby
responsible for complying with all conditions. If total wetland fill for this project (now or in the future) exceeds one
acre, or total fill to perennial streams equals or exceeds 150 linear feet, additional compensatory mitigation may be
required as described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h). For this approval to be valid, you must follow the conditions
listed in the attached certification, as well as the additional conditions listed below:
North Carolina Division of Water Quality, Winston -Salem Regional Office
Location. 585 Waughtown St. Winston - Salem, North Carolina 27107
Phone [phone] FAX* 336- 771 -46301 Customer Service- 1- 877 -623 -6748
Internet: www.ncwaterquality org
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Little Creek Greenway
DWQ# 12 -0839
November 16, 2012
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1. The following impacts are hereby approved as long as all other specific and general conditions of this
Certification are met. No other impacts, including incidental impacts, are approved:
Stream sites
Stream
Impact length
S1
Unnamed tributary 1 to Little Creek
28 linear feet permanent impact
50 linear feet temporary impact
S2
Little Creek
45 linear feet temporary impact
S3
Little Creek
25 linear feet temporary impact
S4
Unnamed tributary 2 to Little Creek
65 linear feet tem porary impact
S5
Unnamed tributary 2 to Little Creek
45, linear feet temporary impact
S6
Little Creek
100 linear feet permanent impact
Total
128 linear feet permanent impact
230 linear feet temporary impact
2. The Permittee shall coordinate a preconstruction meeting with the construction contractor and the Division prior
to commencement of work at Site S6 (Little Creek Box Culverts).
3. Upon finishing the project, the Applicant shall fill out and return the enclosed "Certificate of Completion" to
notify NCDWQ when all work included in the 401 Certification has been completed. This certificate should be
returned to the Winston -Salem Regional Office of the NCDWQ at the address listed on the form.
If you do not accept any of the conditions of this certification, you may ask for an adjudicatory hearing. You
must act within 60 days of the date that you receive this letter. To ask for a hearing, send a written petition
which conforms to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes to the Office of Administrative Hearings, 6714
Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699 -6714. This certification and its conditions are final and binding unless you
ask for a hearing.
This letter completes the review of the Division of Water Quality under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. If you
have any questions, please contact Sue Homewood in the DWQ Winston -Salem Regional Office at 336 - 771 -4964 or at
sue.homewood @ncdenr.gov.
Sincerely,
Charles Wakild, Director
Division of Water Quality
cc: John Thomas, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Raleigh Regulatory Field Office (via email)
DWQ Winston -Salem Regional Office
DWQ Wetlands /401„