20070156 Ver 4_Staff Comments_20080226 (861)

Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
Subject: Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
From: Eric Kulz <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:54:17 -0500
To: [e-mail]
Thomas:
Hope all is well with you.
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We have reviewed the Year 2 monitoring report for the wetland restoration and stream
enhancement/buffer restoration for compensatory mitigation for impacts at the airport. Overall, the
2007 growing season showed 30% survival of trees in the wetland area, and 11 % in the buffer/stream
enhancement. They did major replanting in 12/07.
Since the wetland portion of the project is actually enhancement (it was approved as restoration, but all
they did was plant, no hydrological modifications), and the stream mitigation was also enhancment
(planting of buffers), then the vegetation is the critical element for this mitigation site.
We are propisng that they reset their monitoring clock to reflect the 2008 growing season as year 1 of
their required five-year monitoring.
Please provide your thoughts. DWQ will be requiring resetting of the clock for the buffer mitigation.
I thought I would check with you to get our agencies on the same page, and have them reset the clock
for the project.
Looking forward to your comments,
Eric.
Eric W. Kulz
Environmental Specialist
401 Oversight and Express Permitting Unit
2321 Crabtree Blvd., Suite 250
Raleigh, NC 27604
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
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