SW6210905_email_20220803

Peck, Kaitlin
From:Farkas, Jim J
Sent:Wednesday, August 3, 2022 2:01 PM
To:Sam Nye
Subject:RE: \[External\] RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental
We still have not received the items that were requested for this project. Please provide them to the address below in
my signature at your earliest convenience.

Jim Farkas
State Stormwater Engineer
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Energy, Mineral, & Land Resources – Stormwater Program

512 N. Salisbury Street
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612

[phone]
[e-mail]

Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the
North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

Based on the current guidance to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the Department of Environmental Quality has
adjusted operations to protect the health and safety of the staff and public. Many employees are working remotely or
are on staggered shifts. To accommodate these staffing changes, all DEQ office locations are limiting public access to
appointments only. Please check with the appropriate staff before visiting our offices, as we may be able to handle your
requests by phone or email. We appreciate your patience as we continue to serve the public during this challenging
time.

From: Farkas, Jim J
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:45 AM
To: Sam Nye <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: \[External\] RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental

It hasn’t turned up here.

-Jim

1

From: Sam Nye <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 4:35 PM
To: Farkas, Jim J <[e-mail]>
Cc: 'Gregory Stafford' <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: \[External\] RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental
Importance: High

CAUTION: External email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you verify. Send all suspicious email as an attachment to
Report Spam.

Jim,

Did you ever get or find a copy of this FRF? I think that was all that was lacking for this approval. If not, Greg will you
please hand deliver a hard copy to Jim?

Thank you, Sam

Samuel R. Nye, PE | Principal
[e-mail]
THE SITE GROUP
Civil Engineers • Landscape Architects
1111 Oberlin Road t: 919.835.4787
Raleigh, NC 27605 c: 919.996.9136

From: Farkas, Jim J <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 7:40 AM
To: Sam Nye <[e-mail]>
Cc: 'Gregory Stafford' <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: \[External\] RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental

Do you have the address for where this item was sent to/tracking info (indicating who signed for the package)?
Sometimes mail that comes to our building gets sent to the wrong floor so any information you can provide about the
mailing can help us track it down.

-Jim

From: Sam Nye <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:55 PM
To: Farkas, Jim J <[e-mail]>
Cc: 'Gregory Stafford' <[e-mail]>
Subject: \[External\] RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental

CAUTION: External email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you verify. Send all suspicious email as an attachment to
Report Spam.

Hey Jim,

2

My client says he sent the original signatures application back to your office several weeks ago. Is there anywhere you
could check to see if it got forwarded to the wrong place? If not, let us know and Greg will get it re-signed and sent back
out to your attention.

Thank you, Sam

Samuel R. Nye, PE | Principal
[e-mail]
THE SITE GROUP
Civil Engineers • Landscape Architects
1111 Oberlin Road t: 919.835.4787
Raleigh, NC 27605 c: 919.996.9136

From: Farkas, Jim J <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 1:22 PM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental

Samuel,

I was looking over the additional information you provided on March 1, 2022. Everything looks good except for a few
small issues:

Please correct the following:
- Application (Original Comments 2 & 5) – I have not yet received the revised Application. The permit cannot be
issued until this information is received.
- Original Comment 4, Wet Pond Page, Line 43 – The provided value, 78 inches, seems too deep. The permanent
pool surface is located at elevation 264.5 and the lowest point of the forebay per plan sheet SITE 303 is 259.0
(264.5 – 259.0 = 5.5’ = 66” < 78”). Please revises as needed. NOTE: The forebay bottom elevation is not explicitly
called out in the plans, the elevation of 259.0 was inferred from the cross-sectional and plan views provided on
the plan sheet. If the actual forebay bottom elevation is different than 259.0 please let me know.
- Original Comment 4, Wet Pond Page, Line 44 – The provided value, 72 inches, seems too deep (same reasoning
as above).
- Supplement-EZ Form, Wet Pond Page, Line 28 – The provided average depth of the main pool (6.5 ft) does not
correspond to the information in the calculations (3.0 ft). Please revise.

Please provide the following:
- 1x hard copy and 1x electronic copy of the revised pages of the Supplement-EZ Form.
- 1x original signed & notarized hard copy and 1x electronic copy of the corrected signature page of the
Application.

Hard copies should be mailed to me at the following address:
For FedEx/UPS:
Jim Farkas
512 N. Salisbury Street, Office 640E
Raleigh, NC 27604

For USPS:
Jim Farkas
3

1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612

Electronic copies should be uploaded at the following location:
https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/Forms/SW-Supplemental-Upload

Since these are really minor things, once I get the hard copies, anything else that may have changed from addressing
these issues, and the documents are uploaded to Laserfiche (Provided everything is still in order), we can issue the
permit without doing another formal review.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Jim Farkas
Environmental Engineer
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Energy, Mineral, & Land Resources – Stormwater Program

512 N. Salisbury Street
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612

[phone]
[e-mail]

Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the
North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

Based on the current guidance to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the Department of Environmental Quality has
adjusted operations to protect the health and safety of the staff and public. Many employees are working remotely or
are on staggered shifts. To accommodate these staffing changes, all DEQ office locations are limiting public access to
appointments only. Please check with the appropriate staff before visiting our offices, as we may be able to handle your
requests by phone or email. We appreciate your patience as we continue to serve the public during this challenging
time.

From: Farkas, Jim J
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 8:38 AM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental

Samuel,

4

I was looking over the additional information you provided on November 15, 2021. Everything looks good except for a
few small issues:

Please correct the following:
- Original Comment 2 – There still appears to be consistency issues with the drainage area information
throughout the submission. Section IV, 10 of the Application and the Supplement-EZ Form show the drainage
area to the proposed wet pond to be 183,823 sf while the provided post-development drainage area plan sheet,
D.A. 2.0, shows the drainage area A (which drains to the proposed wet pond) as 183,789 sf. The total
impervious land cover as shown in the Application, Supplement-EZ Form, and drainage area plan sheet is
144,264 sf (approximately 3.31 ac) whereas the calculations show the total amount of BUA within the drainage
area to be 3.4 ac. Adding up the individual land use types for post development drainage area A on the drainage
area plan sheet (D.A. 2.0) results in 202,030 sf of drainage area whereas the “total” line indicates only 183,823 sf
of drainage area. Etc… Please revise as needed for correctness and consistency and QA/QC the submission prior
to resubmittal.
- Original Comment 4 – Please correct the following issues with the Supplement-EZ Form:
o Drainage Areas Page:
 Drainage Area 1 Column, Line 8 – This value should correspond to the total amount of BUA
located within the drainage area to the proposed wet pond (a sum of Lines 9, 10, 11, and 15).
 Drainage Area 1 Column, Line 20 – The design volume of the proposed wet pond is calculated
based on the 1.0” design storm, not the volume that can be stored below the bypass weir.
o Wet Pond Page:
 Line 2 – This value appears to be incorrect (see earlier comment about the calculations using 3.4
acres of BUA whereas the other submission items use 3.31 ac).
 Line 20 – The plans indicate an excavated bottom elevation of 259 ft (260 ft is shown in this
form). Revise as needed.
 Line 21 – The plans indicate a sediment storage top elevation of 260 ft (261 ft is shown in this
form). Revise as needed.
 Line 26 – The calculations indicate a main pool (not a total permanent pool) surface area of
5,656 sf (6,898 sf is shown in this form). Revise as needed.
 Line 27 – The calculations indicate a main pool volume of 15,888 cf (13,412 cf is shown in this
form). Revise as needed.
 Line 31 – The plans indicate the width of the submerged portion of the vegetated shelf as 3 ft (6
ft is shown in this form). Revise as needed.
 Line 32 – The calculations indicate a forebay volume of 2,779 cf (2,490 cf is shown in this form).
Revise as needed.
 Line 34 – The cleanout depth of the forebay is the distance between the permanent pool surface
elevation and the top elevation of the sediment storage zone, expressed in inches. Revise as
needed.
 Line 37 – This cell of the spreadsheet rounds values to the nearest whole number. Please
indicate the actual orifice diameter, 1.75”, in the additional information area (Line 55).
 Line 40 – The calculations indicate a drawdown time of 2 days (3 days is shown in this form).
Revise as needed.
 Line 43 – The depth of the forebay at the entrance is the distance from the permanent pool
surface elevation to the excavated bottom elevation of the forebay near its entrance, expressed
in inches. Per Wet Pond MDC 5b, the entrance of the forebay must be deeper than the exit of
the forebay (Line 43 > Line 44).
 Line 44 – The depth of the forebay at the exit is the distance from the permanent pool surface
elevation to the excavated bottom elevation of the forebay near its exit, expressed in inches. Per
Wet Pond MDC 5b, the entrance of the forebay must be deeper than the exit of the forebay
(Line 43 > Line 44).
 Line 48 – The plans indicate that
5

- Original Comment 5 – Since the Applicant is also the Property Owner, Section X of the Application should be
signed (Section IX of the Application was mistakenly signed instead of Section X).
- Original Comment 13 – Please provide the electronic files for the items submitted on November 15, 2021.
Electronic submissions are required per 15A NCAC 02H .1042(2).
- There appears to be an issue with the orifice/drawdown calculations. The design volume used in the
calculations, 12,222 cf, is not equal to the design volume of the proposed wet pond.
- There appears to be 3,750 sf of new BUA that is not being treated in an SCM. In order to meet Runoff
Treatment, “…the volume of stormwater runoff generated from all of the built-upon area of a project at build-
out during a storm of the required storm depth is treated in one or more primary SCMs…” (15A NCAC 02H
.1002(43)). 15A NCAC 02H .1003(3)(b) does not require existing BUA to be treated, but all new BUA (or an
equivalent area of untreated BUA equal to the net increase in BUA) should be treated in one or more SCMs. If it
is not possible/practical to direct this much BUA to SCMs please let me know.

Please provide the following:
- Revised drainage area, site plan, and/or calculation information, as needed (2x hard copies of any plan sheets,
1x hard copy of any other documents, and 1x electronic copy of all revised items).
- 1x hard copy and 1x electronic copy of the revised pages of the Supplement-EZ Form.
- 1x original signed & notarized hard copy and 1x electronic copy of the corrected signature page of the
Application.
- 1x electronic copy of all of the hard copy items provided in the November 15, 2021 submission.

Hard copies should be mailed to me at the following address:
For FedEx/UPS:
Jim Farkas
512 N. Salisbury Street, Office 640E
Raleigh, NC 27604

For USPS:
Jim Farkas
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612

Electronic copies should be uploaded at the following location:
https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/Forms/SW-Supplemental-Upload

Since these are really minor things, once I get the hard copies, anything else that may have changed from addressing
these issues, and the documents are uploaded to Laserfiche (Provided everything is still in order), we can issue the
permit without doing another formal 30-45 day review.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Jim Farkas
Environmental Engineer
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Energy, Mineral, & Land Resources – Stormwater Program

512 N. Salisbury Street
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612

[phone]
6

[e-mail]

Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the
North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

Based on the current guidance to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the Department of Environmental Quality has
adjusted operations to protect the health and safety of the staff and public. Many employees are working remotely or
are on staggered shifts. To accommodate these staffing changes, all DEQ office locations are limiting public access to
appointments only. Please check with the appropriate staff before visiting our offices, as we may be able to handle your
requests by phone or email. We appreciate your patience as we continue to serve the public during this challenging
time.

From: Farkas, Jim J
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:09 PM
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]; Lawyer, Mike <[e-mail]>
Subject: SW6210905; Champion Court Rental

Good Afternoon,
The Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources (DEMLR), received a Stormwater Management Permit Application
th
for the subject project on September 21, 2021. A review of that information has determined that the application is not
complete. Attached is a letter describing the items that need to be submitted. If you have any questions, please feel free
to contact me. My contact information is listed below.
Thank you,

Jim Farkas
Environmental Engineer
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Energy, Mineral, & Land Resources – Stormwater Program

512 N. Salisbury Street
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612

[phone]
[e-mail]

7

Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the
North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

Based on the current guidance to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the Department of Environmental Quality has
adjusted operations to protect the health and safety of the staff and public. Many employees are working remotely or
are on staggered shifts. To accommodate these staffing changes, all DEQ office locations are limiting public access to
appointments only. Please check with the appropriate staff before visiting our offices, as we may be able to handle your
requests by phone or email. We appreciate your patience as we continue to serve the public during this challenging
time.

8