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State of North Carolina
Department of Environment,
Health and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary
A. Preston Howard, Jr., P.E., Director
APPROVAL of 401 Water Quality Certification
Mr. J. Patrick Warren
Warren Design Eng., Inc.
Northwest Professional Park
P.O. Box 1136
Hickory, NC 28603
Dear Mr. Warren:
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March 17, 1997
Catawba County
WQC 401 Project #970181
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to place fill material in 94 feet of
streams for the purpose of constructing a ball field at Oakwood Elementary School in Hickory, NC, as you
described in your application dated 3 March 1997. After reviewing your application, we have decided that this
fill is covered by General Water Quality Certification Number 3108. This Certification allows you to use
Nationwide Permit Number 26 when it is issued by the Corps of Engineers.
This approval is only valid for the purpose and design that you described in your application. If you
change your project, you must notify us and you may be required to send us a new application. If total
wetland fills for this project (now or in the future) exceed one acre, compensatory mitigation may be required
as described in 15A NCAC 2H.0506 (h) (6) and (7). For this approval to be valid, you must follow the
conditions listed in the attached certification. In addition, you should get any other federal, state or local
permits before you go ahead with your project including (but not limited to) Sediment and Erosion Control,
Coastal Stormwater, Non - Discharge and Water Supply Watershed regulations. Also this approval will expire
when the accompanying 404 or CAMA permit expires unless otherwise specked in the General Certification.
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, P.O. Box 27447, Raleigh, N.C. 27611 -7447. 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 telephone John Dorney at 919 - 733 -1786.
Sincerely,
ton Howard, Jr. P.E.
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Attachment
cc: Wilmington District Corps of Engineers
Corps of Engineers Asheville Field Office
Mooresville DWQ Regional Office
Mr. John Dorney
Central Files
970181.1tr
Division of Water Quality - Environmental Sciences Branch
Environmental Sciences Branch, 4401 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607 Telephone [phone] FAX # [phone]
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March 3, 1997
Mr. Stephen D. ChapiD, Biologist
US Army Corp. of Engineers
Wilmington District
151 Patton Ave. Room 143
Asheville, NC 28801
Re: Oakwood Elementary School, Ball Field
Catawba County
Dear Mr. Chapin:
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Attached is a plan of the referenced project. The project
will impact approximately 94 l.ft, of an existing drainage
ditch with ax1 average width of 2 to 3 ft. or 0.01 acres. The
impacted area is also outside of the Historic Boundary as
established by the City of Hickory. it is my understanding that
since this is less than one -third of an acre, less than 150
l.ft. of pipe, and outside the historic area that a US ACE,
NC DEHNR, or NC SHPO permit is not required. Please notify me
If this not correct.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please contact me
if you need additional information or if you have questions.
sincerely,
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J. Patrick Warren, P.E.
xc: Stuart Thompson, Hickory City Schools
Jim Stumbo, AlA, CBSA Architects
John Dorney, NC DEHNR
Renee Gledehi,ll- Early, NC SHPQ
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