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Re: FW: Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
Subject: Re: FW: Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
From: Elizabeth Kountis <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:25:42 -0400
To: Cyndi Karoly <[e-mail]>
CC: Jeff Manning <[e-mail]>, Michelle Raquet <[e-mail]>, Rex
Gleason <[e-mail]>, Alan Clark <[e-mail]>, [e-mail],
Melba McGee <[e-mail]>, Roger Edwards <[e-mail]>, Alex
Marks <[e-mail]>
Thanks. I've gotten two reclassification requests for WS' within close promitiy on
the Broad River in this area, more specifically one request came from Shelby and the
other from Forest City, and know that at least the Forest City project requires an
EA/EIS. I'm not sure how the project below "fits in" with these two requests, and
will try to find out more from the local munis. I may be contacting you in the future
for updates on the project below. Thanks again.
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.
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.
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Re: FW: Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
From:
Susan massengale <susan.massengale~ancmail.net>
Date:
Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:56:49 -0400
To:
DWQ Clips <DENR.DWQ_Clips._DWQ',~ncmail_net>
To:
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From the Shelby Star
Property owners want hearing on upper Cleveland reservoir
Joy Scott <mailto:Joy ScottClink.freedom.com>
Star Staff Writer
Joy Scott
scottc~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.
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:
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