20161220-Highland Creek Sites CloseOut.docx

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ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E. ROGERS, JR.
Director
Mr. Jamie Lancaster, P.E.,
Environmental Analysis Unit
North Carolina Department of Transportation
1598 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1598
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
June 4, 2024
Gaston County
NCDWR Project No. 20161220
TIP # I-5000
Subject: Highland Creek Sites #1 and #3, Gaston County, TIP #I-5000, DWR Project No. 20161220.
Dear Mr. Lancaster:
This correspondence is in reference to your letter dated May 10, 2024, for the Highland Creek Mitigation Sites,
located in Gaston County, North Carolina. These sites are being utilized by the North Carolina Department of
Transportation as compensatory mitigation for Stream impacts associated with project I-5000.
The site was constructed June 2022 with the final monitoring report published November 2023. The regulatory
agencies agreed to close out at the site review meeting on April 22, 2024.
By copy of this letter, we are notifying you that this site can be closed out with the following results as described in
your letter, and the final monitoring report:
Stream Relocation: 317 linear feet.
Thank you for your time and cooperation. if you have any questions, please contact Mary Plummer at 704-235-
2193.
Sincerely,
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Richard E Rogers Jr., Director
Division of Water Resources
Electronic copy only distribution:
Crystal Amschler, US Army Corps of Engineers, Asheville Field Office
Jeff Wyatt, NCDOT Division 12
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North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
512 North Salisbury Street 11617 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
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