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January 23, 2008
Thomas B. Wood
101 Benbury Drive
Edenton, NC 27932
Subject Property: Mulberry Hill
NO WRITTEN CONCURRENCE NEEDED
Dear Mr. Wood:
Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
Chuck Wakild, P.E., Deputy Director
Division of Water Quality
Chowan County
DWQ Project #:07-2205
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to impact 1212 sq.ft. of waters by
shading for the purpose of constructing two covered slips, stepdown platform, and catwalks as you
described in your application dated October 30, 2007. After reviewing your application, we have
decided this fill is below the threshold for written authorization as long as all conditions of General
Water Quality Certification Number 3641 are met, which may be viewed on our website at
ham://h2o.enr. state.nc.us/ncwetlands.
This approval is only valid for the purpose and design that you described in your application except as
modified below. If you change your project, you must notify us and you may be required to send us a
new application. If the property is sold, the new owner must be given a copy of this Certification and
approval letter and is thereby responsible for complying with all conditions. If total wetland fills for
this project (now or in the future) exceed one acre, compensatory mitigation may be required as
described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h) (6) and (7). This approval shall expire when the corresponding
Nationwide Permit expires or as otherwise provided in the General Certification. For this approval to
be valid, you must follow the conditions listed in the attached certification and any additional
conditions listed below.
Conditions of Certification:
Upon completion of the project, the applicant shall complete and return the enclosed
"Certification of Completion Form" to notify DWQ that all the work included in the 401
Certification has been completed. The responsible party shall complete the attached form and
return it to the 401/Wetlands Unit of the Division of Water Quality.
Violations of any condition herein set forth may result in revocation of this Certification and may result
in criminal and/or civil penalties. This Certification shall become null and void unless the above
conditions are made conditions of the Federa1404 and/or coastal Area Management Act Permit.
North Carolina Division of Water Quality Internet: h2o.enr.state.nc.us
943 Washington Square Mall Phone: [phone]
Washington, NC 27889 FA3C 252-946-9215
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If you do not accept any of the conditions of this certification, you may ask for an adjudicatory hearing.
You must act within 60 days of the date that you receive this letter. To ask for a hearing, send a written
petition, which conforms to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes to the Office of
Administrative Hearings, 6714 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-6714. This certification and
its conditions are final and binding unless you ask for a hearing.
This letter completes the review of the Division of Water Quality under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act and the
Neuse riparian buffer protection rule as described within 15A NCAC 2B .0233. If you have any questions, please
telephone Kyle Barnes at 252-948-3917 or Ian McMillan at 919-733-1786.
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Division of Water Quality
Surface Water Protection
Washington Regional Office
Enclosures: Certificate of Completion
GC 3 641
cc: Corps of Engineers Washington Field Office
DWQ 401 Oversight/Express Unit
CAMA, Morehead Office
File copy
Central Files
Filename: 07-2205
401 Oversight/Express Permitting Unit
1650 Mait Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevazd, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] /FAX [phone] /Internet: http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands
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