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To: Katie Merritt
From: David Knowles
Date: 05July2013
Re: EvansBallahack As -Built Report, Greene Environmental Services, LLC
Katie-
Included is the "As- Built" report for the EvansBallahack Bank Parcel, Tar River Mitigation
Bank. We welcome the opportunity to discuss the project with you and address any concerns
and questions that may arise. As you have mentioned, a follow -up site visit will be required. I
will be out of state for two to three weeks during mid to late July, but Jeff Becker would be
available to meet at the Edgecombe County site during my absence; I could be contacted via
phone if needed. Otherwise, I should be available upon my return. When you have some
possible dates available, please contact Jeff and me.
Thank you and I hope you are having an enjoyable and productive summer.
David Knowles
252.757 -1978, juncusl @yahoo.co
Jeff Becker
919.215 -3899, jrbecker @bellsouth.net
As -Built Report for Evans Ballahack Bank Parcel
Greene Environmental Services, LLC
Tar River Umbrella Mitigation Bank
July 2013
Submitted to: Katie Merritt
NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality — Wetlands and Storm Water Branch
1650 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699 -1650 Phone: (919) 807 -6371; Fax: (919) 8076494
Submitted by: Jeff Becker
1004 Glencastle Way
Raleigh, NC 27606
Phone: (919) 215 -3899; Fax: (919) 859 -0911
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As- Built Report for Evans Ballahack Bank Parcel
Greene Environmental Services, LLC
Tar River Umbrella Mitigation Bank
July 2013
Introduction and Background
Greene Environmental Services, LLC (GES) of Snow Hill, North Carolina, in 2013, established
a riparian buffer /nutrient offset mitigation site in the Tar River Basin. The site is located east of
the Edgecombe County town of Tarboro, NC and may be accessed by driving east on US 264
approximately 5 miles from Tarboro (Figure 1). At Exit 491 take Chinquapin Road (SR 1524) 2
miles north to NC 111. Take a right turn on NC 111 and drive approximately 0.3 miles and take
a right turn onto Roberson School Road (SR 1524). Continue on Roberson School Road for
approximately 0.6 miles and take a right turn onto the unnamed farm road with circular metal
grain storage buildings located in the distance from the road. Continue 0.3 miles on farm road to
a bridge over a drainage canal. The project site is located to the east of the canal and south of the
metal buildings along a streamside tree line (Figures 2 and 3). The purpose of the nutrient
mitigation bank is to improve water quality within the Neuse River Basin by reducing nutrient
and sediment inputs to the watershed and provide off -site mitigation for development requiring
nutrient offsets.
The bank parcel is located within the Lower Tar Watershed (HUC: 03020103). The bank parcel
buffers an un -named tributary to drains to Ballahack Canal which in turn is a tributary to
Conetoe Creek which enters the Tar River near the Pitt County town of Falkland, NC. Ballahack
Canal is an impaired stream with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural
Resources — Division of Water Quality designation: 28- 87 -1.2 C NSW 8.4 mi. AL B -9 SS - -02 I
FS. The local landscape is in row crop agriculture, cut -over forest scrubland and forest. Soils
range from well drained loamy sands to very poorly drained loams (Figure 4). In the 2012
growing season, prior to the installation of tree seedlings, the site was in soybean production.
The bank parcel is 10 acres, including 5.45 acres of Tar- Pamlico riparian buffer and 4.55 acres of
nutrient offset buffer restoration (Figures 5a and 5b). This bank parcel was established under the
terms and conditions of the Greene Environmental Services Tar- Pamlico River Basin Riparian
Buffer and Nutrient Offset Umbrella Bank made and entered into by Mr. Bobby Ham of Greene
Environmental Services, LLC, acting as the Bank Sponsor and the North Carolina Department
ofEnvironment and Natural Resources — Division of Water Quality which is included with this
submission and will be signed by the Division Director. In October 2012, a stream
determination was recorded by Martin Richmond of DWQ and a preliminary site visited was
made by Katie Merritt of DWQ; the site was determined to be suitable for nutrient offset
mitigation and riparian buffer.
Plantings and Monitoring Plot Implementation
The EvansBallahack bank parcel was planted with character trees in February and March 2013
at a rate of 500 seedlings per acre. The suite of tree species selected for the bank parcel should be
well - adapted or tolerant to the soil and drainage conditions throughout the site.
Soils at the EvansBallahack mitigation site were loams and sandy loams and ranged from very
poorly drained soils to well drained; historic ditching has most likely increase the rate of soil
drainage (Figure 4). Bareroot seedlings were obtained from the North Carolina Forest Service Nursery,
Claridge Nursery, Goldsboro, NC. All tree seedlings planted generally range in height from 1 foot to 4
feet. The species most frequently planted on soils with poor drainage were bald cypress, black gum and
river birch (Table 1). The species most frequently planted on better drained soils were red oak and white
oak. Persimmon, yellow poplar, sycamore, water oak and willow oak were planted throughout with the
exception of areas with exhibited frequent ponding. Seedlings were planted in rows roughly paralleling
the buffered stream at l Oft by l Oft spacings.
A total of 5000 bareroot seedlings of ten character species were planted at the EvansBallahack parcel
during February and March 2013 (Table 2). Yellow poplar, black gum, white oak and bald cypress were
the most frequently planted species, accounting for 52 % of the seedlings planted. River birch, sycamore,
willow oak and water oak accounted for 40% of the total seedlings planted. Persimmon and red oak
accounted for 8% of the total seedlings planted. While planting, soils, microsite and surface drainage
conditions were noted and appropriate species were planted on these sites (Table 1).
Surveyed boundary points were demarked with 6 -foot metal T -posts and the boundary between the
mitigation parcel and the adjacent agricultural land was marked with white, 5 -foot PVC posts atop metal
rods at 100 -foot intervals. Five, l Om by l Om monitoring plots were established on the parcel using
CVS protocols (Figures 5a and 5b). Tracts 1, 2 and 4 each have one plot; the largest tract, Tract
3, has two plots. The corners of each plot were marked with white, 10 -foot PVC posts atop metal
rods. Seedlings within the monitoring plots were flagged with blue, plastic, flagging tape and
white pinflags. All seedlings within each plot were located and mapped (Figures 6a -6e). Plot
photographs were made from a location at the northwest corner with a view toward the southeast
corner (Figure 7). A set of photographs is included depicting tract boundaries and representative
seedlings (Figure 8).
Upon completion of the initial planting an average of 17.2 ±4.9 seedlings was recorded in the five
monitoring plots (Table 3); thus the average density was 696.3 +197.1 seedlings per acre. Plot
BLK -1 in Tract 1 had the greatest density of seedlings with 24 per IOOm2 plot, thus 972
seedlings per acre. Plot BLK -3 in Tract 3 had the lowest density with 12 seedlings, thus 486
seedlings per acre.
The EvansBallahack Parcel will be monitored during the 2013 growing season to ensure that the
parcel boundaries are maintained and that any easement terms are in compliance. At the end of
the growing season, the monitoring plots will be assessed and photographed and the first annual
submitted to the NC Division of Water Quality. If remedial planting is required, the planting
effort will take place during winter 2013/2014.
Table 1. Species suitability for soils at the EvansBallahack Mitigation Bank in Edgecombe County, NC.
Greene Environmental Services, LLC, Snow Hill, NC.
Tract
Dominant Soils
Soil Drainage
Species Suitability
1
Roanoke loam (Ro)
Poorly drained
river birch, yellow poplar, black gum,
Betula nigra
River birch
75
sycamore
2
Cape Fear loam (Ca)
Very poorly
river birch, persimmon, yellow poplar, black
Persimmon
0
drained
gum, sycamore, bald cypress
3
Cape Fear loam (Ca)
Very poorly
river birch, persimmon, yellow poplar, black
100
250
drained
gum, sycamore, bald cypress
700(14%)
Altavista fine sandy loam, 0 to
Well drained
river birch, persimmon, yellow poplar, black
200
3 percent slopes (AaA)
50
gum, sycamore, white oak, willow oak,
Platanus occidentalis
Sycamore
50
water oak
4
Ballahack fine sandy loam
Very poorly
river birch, persimmon, yellow poplar, black
White oak
(Ba)
drained
gum, sycamore, bald cypress
50
Portsmouth fine sandy loam
Very poorly
river birch, persimmon, yellow poplar, black
50
(Pu)
drained
gum, sycamore, bald cypress
500(10%)
Conetoe loamy sand, 0 to 4
Well drained
river birch, persimmon, yellow poplar, black
150
percent slopes (CeB)
50
gum, sycamore, white oak, willow oak,
ercus rubra
Red oak
25
water oak
Table 2. Bare -root seedlings planted during February and March, 2013, in four tracts at the 10 -acre
EvansBallahack Mitigation Bank in Edgecombe County, NC. Greene Environmental Services, LLC,
Snow Hill, NC.
Numbers of Seedlings of Character Tree Species Planted
Seedling Species
Common
Name
Tract 1
Tract 2
Tract 3
Tract 4
Total
Betula nigra
River birch
75
125
200
100
500(10%
Diospyros vir iniana
Persimmon
0
100
50
50
200(4%)
Liriodendron
tuli er era
Yellow poplar
100
250
300
50
700(14%)
N ssa s lvatica
Black um
50
200
300
50
600(12%)
Platanus occidentalis
Sycamore
50
100
300
50
500(10%)
ercus alba
White oak
50
50
550
50
700(14%)
ercus nigra
Water oak
50
50
300
50
500(10%)
ercus hellos
Willow oak
0
150
300
50
500(10%)
ercus rubra
Red oak
25
25
100
50
200(4%)
Tazodium distichum
Bald cypress
0
200
200
200
600(12%)
TOTALS
1
400
1250
2650
700
5000
Table 3. Species counts in IOm by 10 m monitoring plots recorded in May 2013. EvansBallahack
Mitigation Bank in Edgecombe County, NC. Greene Environmental Services, LLC, Snow Hill, NC.
Seedling Species
Common Name
BHK-
1
BHK-
2
BHK-
3
BEIK-
4
BE K-
5
Totals
Betula nigra
River birch
3
2
3
0
0
8
Diospyros vir iniana
Amer. persimmon
0
0
0
0
0
0
Liriodendron tuli er era
Yellow poplar
7
3
2
3
1
16
N ssa s lvatica
Black um
7
3
2
3
4
19
Platanus occidentalis
Sycamore
0
0
2
0
0
2
ercus alba
White oak
4
0
1
3
3
11
ercus nigra
Water oak
2
0
0
6
2
10
ercus phellos
Willow oak
1
2
1
1 3
0
7
ercus rubra
Red oak
0
0
1
1
2
5
Taxodium distichum
Bald cypress
0
8
0
0
0
8
Totals
1 24
1 18
12
19
13
17.2 +4.9
Avg +SD
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Snow Hill. NC 28580
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PU: Portsmouth fine sandy loam RO: Roanoke loam
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Figure 6a. Monitoring Plot BLK -1 seedling locations. June 2013. Greene Environmental Services, LLC.
10 meter
NE SE
10
11 ♦
12 ♦
♦ 23
♦ 10
♦ 13
9
♦ 9
♦ 7
♦ 24
♦ 4
♦
15
♦1
8
17♦
♦ 21
7
♦
19
12
Black um
24
Water oak
6
5
4
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3
2
1
0
0 1
2 3
4 5 6
7
8 9 10
NW
SW
1 Willow oak 13 Yellow poplar
2 Yellow poplar 14 Black um
3 White oak 15 River birch
4 River birch 16 White oak
5 Water oak 17 Black um
6 Yellow poplar 18 River birch
7 Black um 19 Yellow poplar
8 White oak 20 Black um
9 Yellow poplar 21 Black um
10 Yellow poplar 22 White oak
11 Black um 23 Yellow poplar
11 ♦
12 ♦
♦ 23
♦ 10
♦ 13
♦ 9
♦ 7
♦ 24
♦ 4
♦
15
♦1
♦5
17♦
♦ 21
♦ 20
♦
19
SW
1 Willow oak 13 Yellow poplar
2 Yellow poplar 14 Black um
3 White oak 15 River birch
4 River birch 16 White oak
5 Water oak 17 Black um
6 Yellow poplar 18 River birch
7 Black um 19 Yellow poplar
8 White oak 20 Black um
9 Yellow poplar 21 Black um
10 Yellow poplar 22 White oak
11 Black um 23 Yellow poplar
12
Black um
24
Water oak
SW
1 Willow oak 13 Yellow poplar
2 Yellow poplar 14 Black um
3 White oak 15 River birch
4 River birch 16 White oak
5 Water oak 17 Black um
6 Yellow poplar 18 River birch
7 Black um 19 Yellow poplar
8 White oak 20 Black um
9 Yellow poplar 21 Black um
10 Yellow poplar 22 White oak
11 Black um 23 Yellow poplar
Figure 6b. Monitoring Plot BLK -2 seedling locations. June 2013. Greene Environmental Services, LLC.
10 meters
NE SE
10
♦
♦
11♦
♦
♦ 13
12♦
♦10
9
2 ♦
♦3
♦ 14
8
6
7
♦
♦
9
Bald c ress
18
Willow oak
7
5
♦8
6
5
4
3
2
1
18
17
0
0 1 2
3 4
5
6 7 8
9 10
NW SW
1 Bald c press 10 Black um
2 Yellow poplar 11 Bald cypress
3 Black um 12 River birch
4 River birch 13 Bald cypress
5 Bald c press 14 Yellow poplar
6 Bald c press 15 Willow oak
7 Bald c press 16 Yellow poplar
8 Bald cypress
♦
♦
11♦
♦
♦ 13
♦10
2 ♦
♦3
♦ 14
♦ 1
♦
♦
NW SW
1 Bald c press 10 Black um
2 Yellow poplar 11 Bald cypress
3 Black um 12 River birch
4 River birch 13 Bald cypress
5 Bald c press 14 Yellow poplar
6 Bald c press 15 Willow oak
7 Bald c press 16 Yellow poplar
8 Bald cypress
17
Black um
9
Bald c ress
18
Willow oak
Figure 6c. Monitoring Plot BLK -3 seedling locations. June 2013. Greene Environmental Services, LLC.
10 meters
NE SE
NW SW
1
River birch
7
Sycamore
2
River birch
8
River birch
3
Black um
9
Yellow poplar
4
White oak
10
Red oak
5
1 Willow oak
11
Yellow poplar
6
Sycamore
12
Black gum
Figure 6d. Monitoring Plot BLK -4 seedling locations. June 2013. Greene Environmental Services, LLC.
10 meters
NE SE
10
Water oak
11
Water oak
2
Yellow poplar
12
White oak
3
Willow oak
13
♦ 5
4
Water oak
15
Water oak
9
Persimmon
15
Yellow poplar
6
Persimmon
16
Persimmon
7
Red oak
17
8
8
Water oak
♦ 13
18
14
9
Willow oak
19
Water oak
10
White oak
7
6
♦ 6
16
11 ♦
5
4
3
17 ♦
3
♦
2
♦ 10
18
2
♦9
♦1
1
0
♦ 7
g
19
0 1 2 3 4
5
6 7 8
9
10
NW SW
1
Water oak
11
Water oak
2
Yellow poplar
12
White oak
3
Willow oak
13
White oak
4
Water oak
14
Water oak
5
Persimmon
15
Yellow poplar
6
Persimmon
16
Persimmon
7
Red oak
17
Willow oak
8
Water oak
18
Yellow poplar
9
Willow oak
19
Water oak
10
White oak
NW SW
1
Water oak
11
Water oak
2
Yellow poplar
12
White oak
3
Willow oak
13
White oak
4
Water oak
14
Water oak
5
Persimmon
15
Yellow poplar
6
Persimmon
16
Persimmon
7
Red oak
17
Willow oak
8
Water oak
18
Yellow poplar
9
Willow oak
19
Water oak
10
White oak
Figure 6e. Monitoring Plot BLK -5 seedling locations. June 2013. Greene Environmental Services, LLC.
10 meters
NE SE
NW SW
1
Black um
8
Red oak
2
Black um
9
Black gum
3
Water oak
10
Yellow poplar
4
White oak
1 I
Red oak
5
White oak
12
Water oak
6
Water oak
13
Black gum
7
White oak
Figure 7
EvansBallahack Monitoring Plot
Photographs
June 2013
Plot BLK -1, Tract 1
Plot BLK -2, Tract 2
Plot BLK -3, Tract 3
Plot BLK -4, Tract 3
Plot BLK -5, Tract 4
Figure 8
Evans /Ballahack Parcel
Photographs
June 2013
Parcel boundary Tract 2 view to north
Parcel boundary Tract 2 view to south
Parcel boundary Tract 4 view to east
Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) seedling
Red oak (Quercus rubra) seedling
Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) seedling