20220657 Ver 1_WRC Comments_20220512

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
Cameron Ingram, Executive Director

Mailing Address: Habitat Conservation • 1721 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699-1721
Telephone: [phone] • Fax: [phone]
May 16, 2022

Ms. Brandee Boggs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Branch
151 Patton Avenue, Room 208
Asheville, North Carolina 28801-5006

SUBJECT: UT Second Broad River Stream Restoration
UTs Second Broad River, Rutherford County

Dear Ms. Boggs:

Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) reviewed an
application to restore 2,600 ft on 2 unnamed tributaries (UTs) to the Second Broad River in
Rutherford County. Our comments on this application are offered for your consideration under
provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. 466 et. seq.) and Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661-667d).

Wild trout reproduction should not be impacted by project activities and a trout moratorium is
not needed.

The application proposes to restore unstable reaches of 2 UTs to the Second Broad River with
log and boulder j-hooks, log vanes, brush toe and rock toe revetments, constructed riffles, and
bank grading. A native riparian buffer of approximately 30 ft will be planted on the stream
banks. Work will be done in the dry for the smaller UT, but on the larger UT, in-stream work
areas will be isolated with cobble/gravel berms.

We offer the following recommendations to minimize impacts to the aquatic community:
1. In-channel work should be accomplished as quickly as possible and vigilance used in
sediment and erosion control during site preparation, construction, and clean up. We
appreciate that disturbed areas will be stabilized at the end of each work day.
2. A mature buffer exists on one or both banks of the subject streams. Efforts should be taken
to preserve as many native trees as possible.

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Thank you for the opportunity to review and comment on this project. Please contact me at
[phone] if you have any questions about these comments.

Sincerely,

Andrea Leslie
Mountain Region Coordinator, Habitat Conservation Program

ec: Zan Price, Jennings Environmental
Mitchell Anderson, NC Division of Water Resources