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Westfall (Booth Mtn) - impacts to streams and wetlands
From: Allison Weakley [[e-mail]]
Date: May 17, 2007 23:11
"John Domey"<[e-mail]>, "Matthews, Monte K
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Westfall (Booth Mtn) -impacts to streams and wetlands
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I'm writing to follow up on our visit on May 4, 2~s07, to the "~iillage" portion of the Westfali (Booth IvM1ountain}
development off Jack Bennet# Raad. During that visit you indicated that the channel that drainsjust east at the
Chatham Board of Education property toward Herndon Creek is intermittent. A segment afi the stream channel
has been cleared and graded, and a culvert has been installed to drain the former stream to a sediment basin.
This stream 4~tas not acknowledged in the delineations conducted by 8&EC for this site, nor was it acknowledged
in the 4041401 permit.
l presented my concerns about impacts to streamsr'wettands an the "1/illage" portion of the site to the Chatham
County Board of Can~mi-ssianers in January 2007 -attached is the slide shave i prepared far the Commissioners tca
illustrate these concerns. See especially the map of the "lfiilage" site in slide 5; the stream mentioned above is
shaven as paints 612, B10, 609, and B01 an the map. Photos of these points are shown in the slide shave as well
(slides 17-22).
I have reviewer! a copy of the 404 permiti401 cer#ifcation application for the West#all developrnent and onfirrned
that no streams in that portion of the site were acknowledged during permitting, and thus na impacts to streams in
this portion of the site were acknavrledged. S&EC states in the 444%443'1 application dated august 31, 2006, and
also on the revision dated October 3, 2006, that Todd Tugwell conducted a "detailed wetland delineation" on July
24, 2004, and that he verifred the Jurisdictional Determination {JD) on September 22, 2004. In a FOIA response I
received trans the Army Corps in January 2007. no evidence ofi a "detailed wetland delineation" or JD is included
{though Action 200421536 is references); only one page of i`'Ir. Tugweli's fireid notebook was received, and his
notes da not Shaw any streams or 4vetlandssn the "'tillage" site {nor is the jurisdictional wetland along Herndon
Creek shown). Further, S&EC states in a letter to DWC,3, dated October 3, 2008, that Eric Kulz was scheduled to
~risit the site on October 19, 2{308, trc.~t there is na indication in the €rle as to tha result of that visit.
I`d like to request that the Division of Water Quality in=res#iga#e, as soon as possible, mv#~rether or not all streams
and wetlands, and impaLts to those streams and wetlands, have been acknowledged on the Westfall {Booth
h~ountain) site, as is required for the 404 perm'rti401 certification. C welcome the appostunity to discuss specific
areas of the site with you, and to accompany you an your investigation if that is appropriate,
Thank you very much for your consideration of this regi4est, and I look forward to your response.
Sincerely yours,
~Aliisan
Allison Weakley
Chair, Chatham County Environmental Reviev4r Board
9'I 9.942.9731
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Westfall (Booth Mtn) -impacts to streams and wetlands
cc: Nh~nte h.~9~ttheGSS. US Hrmy Corps of Engineers
George Lacier, Chatham County Commissioner
Jep Bose. Interim County Attorr~Py
Chatham County Environmenta3 Review Board
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