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From: Rick Willis <obvnc3@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 3:50 PM
To: Tankard, Robert
Cc: Raleigh W SAW Bland; Graboski, Scott A; Thorpe, Roger; Pullinger, Robert Q Dumpor,
Samir; billy.w.standridge; Howell, Jonathan; Bodnar, Gregg; Sullivan, Shelton; Stewart,
Glenn A; Mark Bissell; Renaldi, Ronald; L. Sink Kevin; Abel Harmon; Zimmerman Ray;
Robert Burgin; Mitchell, Martin L; Hennessy, John; Homewood, Sue; Goss, Stephanie;
Nyarko, Paul
Subject: Re: [External] Delay in wastewater permitting
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Robert,
Thank you for the fast response. However I am unclear on what the violations are and why you are not
processing our sewer permit for collection lines for this project?
Can you answer questions I posed about what the violations are? I am unclear about what restoration
you are claiming will be required. Please help.
Richard Willis
President
Outer Banks Ventures, Inc.
PO Box 549, Corolla NC 27927
(757) 286-5859
On Jul 19, 2024, at 3:33 PM, Tankard, Robert <robert.tankard@deq.nc.gov> wrote:
Rick, the Division will be glad to discuss the violations with you and your lenders. However, DWR
has not been included in the discussions with your project. The DCM permit that you discuss are
for dockage and other things associated with DCM's authority. Your engineer stated that he has
been in discussion with Roger Thorpe with DWR, however, Roger Thorpe is not with DWR, but he is
with DEMLR. The first time we heard about your project was last week when DEMLR told us that a
borrow pit had been dug in wetlands.
DWR will be glad to meet with you and your consultant about paths forward on restoration of the
site.
Thanks!
Robert
Robert Tankard
Assistant Regional Supervisor
Division of Water Resources
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Office: (252) 948-3921 1 Cell: (252) 402-5694
Robert.tankarda-deg.nc.gov
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From: Rick Willis <obvnc3@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 3:12 PM
To: Raleigh W SAW Bland <raleigh.w.bland@usace.army.mil>; Graboski, Scott A
<Scott.Graboski@deq.nc.gov>; Thorpe, Roger <roger.thorpe@deq.nc.gov>; Pullinger, Robert C
<chris.pullinger@deq.nc.gov>; Dumpor, Samir <samir.dumpor@deq.nc.gov>; biIly.w.standridge
<Billy.W.Standridge@usace.army.mil>; Howell, Jonathan <jonathan.howell@deq.nc.gov>; Bodnar,
Gregg <gregg.bodnar@deq.nc.gov>; Tankard, Robert <robert.tankard@deq.nc.gov>; Sullivan, Shelton
<shelton.sullivan@deq.nc.gov>; Stewart, Glenn A <Glenn.Stewart@deq.nc.gov>
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L. Sink Kevin <ksink@waldrepwall.com>; Abel Harmon <abel.harmon@gmail.com>; Zimmerman Ray
<rayz@premiercros.com>; Robert Burgin <RGB@burginengineeringinc.com>; Mitchell, Martin L
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Subject: [External] Delay in wastewater permitting
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Dear Robert,
We are being advised through our engineer that our Corolla Boat Club site is now in
violation of state rules and that permit applications will no longer be processed for work on
this site. As you can probably imagine, this news is causing a big problem for us.
We try very hard to comply with rules and regulations and to stay in compliance throughout
the course of development. We have submitted all requisite permit applications and have
been coordinating with state and federal agencies for months on this project, and we
initiated site work based on those permits and approvals. In addition, all agencies,
including DWR, were notified of the complete project scope through the CAMA major
permit process, which application was distributed to state and federal agencies back in
February of this year.
For us to now be told that we cannot continue site work according to plans that have been
approved by the state and federal agencies is creating great consternation among me, my
partners and our lender.
Carolina Water Service has a valid sewer permit, which we have filed an application to
amend. We are now being told that the permit will not be processed due to unspecified
rule violations, which we are reportedly going to be notified about with details in another
week to 10 days. We are also hearing that our CAMA permit application is being returned
as a result of activities that we have recently performed in good faith and with valid
permits. We cannot sit in limbo for another week to 10 days, and if we in fact have violated
any rules, we need to know today exactly what rules were violated, how and why they were
violated, why this information is just now coming to our attention, and what the resolution
is.
We are willing to take immediate steps to rectify the situation and get the site back into
compliance, but waiting to get answers to these questions is costing us significant money
each and every day that goes by and is not acceptable.
Again, please provide immediate answers so that this project is not needlessly delayed.
Thankyou,
COROLLA BOAT CLUB, LLC
Richard C. Willis, Manager
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