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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20191261 Ver 2_Kittrell Hill MY4 Comments + Approval_20240306Re: [External] Re: Monitoring Report Review MY4 - Kittrell Hill Friedman -Herring, Andrew <andrew.friedman herring @deq.nc.gov> Thu 3/7/2024 11:06 AM To:Jordan Burbage <jordan@ecoterra.com> Cc:Merritt, Katie<katie.merritt@deq.nc.gov>;mitigation@ecoterra.com <mitigation@ecoterra.com> Hi Jordan, Thank you for your response and for reuploading the corrected monitoring report. DWR officially approves the Kittrell Hill MY4 monitoring report. As a note, while the corrected individual stem height and vigor tables are slightly more legible, there are still 6 plot tables on each page. In future reports, please make sure that a maximum of 1-2 plots be put on a single page with either 11pt or 12pt font. Please provide confirmation of bond renewal through next year's monitoring period. DWR approves a 20% reduction in bond amount to $40,000. Once DWR receives your bond renewal, we can proceed issuing the credit release for this task. Let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Andrew Friedman -Herring Environmental Specialist II Division of Water Resources - 401 & Buffer Permitting North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (919)-707-3644 and rew.friedman herring.@ eq.nc.gov From: Jordan Burbage <jordan@ecoterra.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 2:30 PM To: Friedman -Herring, Andrew <andrew.friedmanherring@deq.nc.gov> Cc: Merritt, Katie <katie.merritt@deq.nc.gov>; mitigation@ecoterra.com <mitigation@ecoterra.com> Subject: [External] Re: Monitoring Report Review MY4 - Kittrell Hill CAUTION: External email. Do not click links or open attachments unless verified. Report suspicious emails with the Report Message button located on your Outlook menu bar on the Home tab. Andrew, Thank you for your comments. Find Eco Terra's comment response as follows: 1. Thank you for the kind words. 2. Additional language has been added to Section 4.3 to satisfy this requirement. 3. Good catch. Revised. 4. Tables were resized to aid legibility. Will increase table size and resolution in future reports. The updated Kittrell Hill MY4 report has been uploaded to the portal. Let us know if you have any further questions. Sincerely, Jordan On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM Friedman -Herring, Andrew <andrew.friedmanherring@deq.nc.gov> wrote: Hi Jordan, DWR has completed the review of the Kittrell Hill MY4 report and has the following comments: 1. Overall, this site appears to be in good condition and on a good track. Thank you for including individual stem heights in this year's report. 2. A requirement for an easement boundary check to be performed every year was included in the BPDP but does not seem to be included in this monitoring report. Respond to this comment with the Year 4 easement boundary check. Even if no encroachments are found, make sure this information is explicitly included in the report, either as a stand alone subsection in section 4.0 or as part of section 4.3 Visual Assessments. 3. The cover page incorrectly states that the report was prepared for the Division of Mitigation Services, while the second page correctly states that the report was prepared for the Division of Water Resources - Nutrient Offset and Buffer Mitigation Program. Please make sure that all reports correctly identify the recipient. 4. The height and vigor data for each plot is extremely small with the text barely legible. In future reports please only put the data from 1-2 plots per page, rather than all 17 on 2 pages. Thank you for your attention to these comments. Please provide an adequate response to all items above along with supporting documents if required. Once DWR receives a response to the comments above, issuance of monitoring report approval and credit release can be determined. Let me know if you have any further questions. Best, Andrew Friedman -Herring Environmental Specialist II Division of Water Resources - 401 & Buffer Permitting North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (919)-707-3644 andrew.friedmanherring@deq.nc.gov Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. Jordan Burbage `,AO ecoJ terra® jordanC@ecoterra.com 919.922.9508 Eco Terra NC 117 Centrewest Court Cary, NC 27513 EcoTerraxom Notice: This email may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. It is intended solely for the holder of the email address to which it has been directed, and should not be disseminated, distributed, copied, or forwarded to any other persons. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any other person. If you have received this email in error, you are directed to please delete it without copying or forwarding it, and notify us of the error by reply email so that our address records may be corrected.