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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WILMINGTON DISTRICT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS
PO BOX 1890
WILMINGTON NC 28402-1890
September 6, 2007
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Regulatory Division
Action ID No. 2002-0768-010
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The Reserve Development Company, LLC
Attn: NIr. John Atkinson, Jr.
Post Office Box 10879
Southport, North Carolina 28461
Dear Mr. Atkinson:
Please reference your application for a Department of the Army Individual Permit pursuant
to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act to discharge fill material into 1.5 acres of Section 404
wetlands adjacent to Polly Gully Creek and Beaverdam Creek to facilitate access within the
development of the proposed The Reserve at St. James Plantation planned-unit development.
This 2372.24 acre project area is located south of NC Highway 211 and east of its junction with
Midway road, near Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina.
On August 20, 2007 this office received information pertaining to your response to
comments received during the Public Notice period, from your agent, Land Management Group,
Inc. Upon review of your application and most recent submittal, we have the following
comments and request for additional information:
1. Please provide a full size (minimum 48" X 36") color map of the entire proposal. This
map should include wetland lines, all proposed development, your preservation proposal
and what is already in preservation through different permits.
2. Please provide this office with a spreadsheet of proposed impacts, listing the type of fill
proposed for each impact, wetland type, location within the 100-year floodplain, whether
it is an existing road, acreage for each impact and the Decidegrees of each location. This
office recommends that connections between wetlands be restored where existing roads
have severed those connections.
3. Please provide a plan view and cross-section of proposed bridges and a typical plan view
and cross-section of proposed culverts.
4. Your mitigation plan is not specific enough.
a. What is the exact acreage that you are proposing for preservation for this permit?
Please break it down between acreage of wetlands and linear feet of stream. Also
indicate if you plan to incorporate passive recreation into your preservation
documents.
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b. Are there any areas within the previous development of St. James that you are
proposing to include for mitigation for this phase?
c. What preservation model are you proposing to use? Please provide this office
with a draft of the conservation easement and draft of the map for recordation.
d. The monitoring of your restoration areas will require an initial site analysis and a
minimum of five years of monitoring or until full site success is achieved.
Reports shall be consistent with Regulatory Guidance Letter 06-03 and document
the presence of all three wetland criteria from the 1987 Wetland Delineation
Manual.
i. Please note that this office anticipates the issuance of a Regional
Supplement to the Delineation Manual this fall.
If you have any questions regarding these matters, please contact me at [phone].
Sincerely,
Kimberly Garvey, Regulatory Specialist
Wilmington Regulatory Field Office
Copy Furnished:
Ms. Kim Williams
Land Management Group, Inc.
3805 Wrightsville Ave, Suite 15
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
~1VIr. Ian McMillan
N.C. Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
1621 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1621
Mr. Howard Hall
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish and Wildlife Enhancement
Post Office Box 33726
Raleigh, North Carolina 27636-3726
Mr. Steven H. Everhart, PhD
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
Division of Inland Fisheries
127 Cardinal Drive Extension
Wilmington, North Carolina 28405