20051457 Ver 1_Cyndi Karoly Emails_20050805

Strickland, Bev
From: Karoly, Cyndi
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 2:17 PM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: FW: FW: Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
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From: Cyndi Karoly [mailto:cyndi.karoly @ncmail.net]
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:09 AM
To: Alan Johnson
Subject: Re: FW: Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
If you read over the Public Notice attached to my e -mail, you'll have as much info about the
project as we have. If the attachment didn't go thru, you should be able to find it on the
Corps' Wilmington District web site.
Alan Johnson wrote:
> Cyndi, I don't have any info regarding the Dam /Reservoir.
> AJ
> Cyndi Karoly wrote:
>> Elizabeth, et al
>> The 401 Unit received the Corps' Public Notice for this project on
>> June 30, 2005, a copy of which is attached. Note that the primary
>> point of the PN is to serve as notice of a formal 404/401
>> application. The secondary point is to solicit opinions as to whether
>> an EIS or EA should be required. This project has been entered in our
>> database as DWQ project #2005 -1457 and you may encounter it under
>> various nicknames including Cleveland County Reservoir, First Broad
>> River Reservoir, Cleveland County Sanitary District c/o Butch Smith,
>> Cleveland Dam, or the Uppper Cleveland Dam /Reservoir. Since that time
>> we've gotten 15 responses to the notice directed or copied to DWQ and
>> the Corps. These include four separate letters in favor, ten opposed
>> (nine of which were a form letter), and one from Alan Clark, Chief of
>> DWQ's Planning Section, directed to the Corps and recommending that
>> an EA be prepared. Apart from that, the only other file material at
>> this time is a letter from the EPA recommending an EIS. Once I get
>> some feedback from Alan Johnson in the MRO as to his technical review
>> of the project, we'll send a collective hold letter from Central with
>> the following hold items:
>> 1)they didn't pay an application fee, 2)need for a SEPA document
>> (Melba - do you have any info or opinions to share ?). Note that if
>> it's determined that a SEPA or NEPA document is required, we can't
>> even begin to process the 401 until the project has cleared the State
>> Clearinghouse,
>> 3) technical issues from MRO...
>> 4)others ... If there are other issues of which I need to be aware,
>> with this project already in the permit mill, please advise and I
>> will be sure to include them in our correspondence with the Corps and
>> the applicant.
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>> Also, for you folks here in Raleigh, I'll be happy to go over the 401
>> process and share the file materials with you to help ensure that we
>> all handle this properly. i.e.- Elizabeth, With respect to the
>> reclassification - that may put the brakes on this application for a
» longer time than the SEPA question.
» Elizabeth.Kountis @ncmail.net wrote:
>>> This is the first I've heard about this project. Do you have any
>>> more info?
>>> A reclassification may be needed for this proposed water supply.
»> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Subject:
>>> Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
>>> From:
>>> susan massengale <susan.massengale @ncmail.net>
>>> Date:
>>> Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:56:49 -0400
>>> To:
>>> DWQ Clips <DENR.DWQ_Clips.DWQ @ncmail.net>
>>> To:
>>> DWQ Clips <DENR.DWQ_Clips.DWQ @ncmail.net>
»> From the Shelby Star
>>> Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir Joy Scott
>>> <mailto:Joy_Scott @link.freedom.com>
>>> Star Staff Writer
»> Joy Scott
>>> joy_scott @link.freedom.com
>>> SHELBY - At least one property owner has requested a public hearing
>>> concerning the reservoir planned for upper Cleveland County,
>>> according to David Baker, a project manager for the U.S. Army Corps
>>> of Engineers.
>>> The Corps of Engineers is the agency that will approve or deny the
>>> Cleveland County Sanitary District's request to build the reservoir
»> by damming up part of the First Broad River.
>>> A date for a public hearing hasn't been set. The Corps would have to
>>> review the person's reasons for asking for the hearing before
>>> deciding whether to hold one, said Baker.
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>>> As of Monday the Corps received close to 20 letters, said Baker.
>>> Opinions of favor and opposition are mixed, he said.
>>> There's one day left for people to comment about the reservoir.
>>> The district wants to build the reservoir to prevent a water
>>> shortage in case there's another drought. It would consist of an
>>> 83 -foot tall dam across the river, 1.4 miles north of Lawndale. A
>>> copy of the application, including the map of the reservoir, can be
>>> viewed on the Corps' Web site (see below) and at the Corps'
>>> Asheville office.
>>> Thursday at 5 p.m. is the deadline to make a written request for a
>>> public hearing on the project or to submit written comments to the
>>> Corps. The address is U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, 151 Patton Ave.,
»> Room 208, Attn: David Baker, Asheville, NC 28801 -5006.
>>> Anyone wanting to comment on the district's application under
>>> Section 401 of the Clean Water Act should do so in writing to the
>>> North Carolina Division of Water Quality, 1650 Mail Service Center,
»> Raleigh, NC 27699 -1650, Attn: Cyndi Karoly, by July 28.
>>> On the Web:
>>> 17601 * -* 7/27/2005 - LN
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