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Proposed Increase in Interbasin Transfer
From the Catawba River Sub-basin to the Rocky River Sub-basin
By the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities
The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources is receiving written comments on the
Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) prepared by the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Utilities (CMU) for the proposed increase in interbasin transfer (IBT) from the Catawba River
sub-basin to the Rocky River sub-basin.
The EA/FONSI may be inspected during normal business hours at the offices of the Division of Water
Resources, 512 N. Salisbury Street, Room 1106, Archdale Building, Raleigh. Written comments can be mailed
to the State Clearinghouse at the address listed below. The project reference number is 02-E-4300-0111.
Comments must be received before 5:00 PM, October 7, 2001.
N.C. STATE CLEARINGHOUSE
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
1302 MAIL SERVICE CENTER
RALEIGH, NC 27699-1302
ATTN: CHRYS BAGGETT
Comments may also be submitted electronically to [e-mail]
*Note, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (EMC) will hold a hearing on the
applicant’s petition for an interbasin transfer certificate. That hearing is tentatively scheduled to occur in
November or December 2001.
Background
CMUD is requesting an IBT certificate from the EMC for an increase in their transfer amount from 16.1
million gallons per day (mgd) to 35 mgd. The proposed IBT is based on the existing water withdrawals from
the source basin (Mountain Island Lake within the Catawba River Sub-basin, and transfer of the water to the
receiving basin (Eastern Mecklenburg County within the Rocky River Sub-basin via consumptive use and
existing discharges in the receiving basin (Mallard Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant [WWTP] and Rocky
River Regional WWTP). The IBT will not lead to expansions of permitted discharges at either of the WWTP
locations in the receiving basin. This Environmental Assessment (EA) provides supporting documentation for
the IBT certificate petition.
For more information, visit our project website at http://www.ncwater.org/Permits_and_Registration/Interbasin_Transfer/.
You may also contact Tom Fransen in the Division of Water Resources at 919-715-0381, or email:
[e-mail].
NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT
Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact