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John Baldwin
Baldwin ~ornes
6708 Green Hollow Court
Wake Forest, NC 27857
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RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
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October 22, 2007
Subject: CAMA General Permit No. 49417
Catnip Point, Lots 1, 2, & 3; Bath, NC
Beaufort County
Dear Mr. Baldwin:
Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Enduonment and Natural Resources
Colleen Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
Your project is located within the Tar -Pamlico River Basin and is thereby subject to North Carolina
Administrative Code Title 15A NCAC 02B .0259, which describes the regulations for the protection and
maintenance of existing riparian buffers.
Your Coastal. Area Management Act (CAMA) permit, issued to you by the Division of Coastal Management
(DCM), allows for the installation and construction of your project. However, there are buffer regulations for
streamside (riverside) buffers and buffers adjacent to coastal wetlands that also apply to your project. The
Division of Water Quality (DWQ) administers these buffer regulations.
The land disturbance, grading and the removal of vegetation necessary to gain access to construct your
shoreline stabilization project must be restored to its original vegetative condition. Because the pre-
existing condition of Zone 1 of the riparian buffer for this site was wooded, the site must be replanted with
native tree species at stem density of 320 trees per acre, and then left in an undisturbed state. Approximately
12,000 ft2 was disturbed on this site, which equates to 89 trees that must be planted to restore the riparian
buffer. Specifically, construction activities must comply with following:
• Minimize the removal of woody
vegetation
• Minimize the extent of the disturbed area
• Minimize the time in which the areas
remain in a disturbed state (bare ground)
• Restore the area of disturbed riparian buffer
Construction corridors are allowed for construction but
they must be satisfactorily restored
Appropriate restoration must be completed by the first
subsequent planting season (December 1 through March
1) for woody vegetation
The 50-foot buffer zone is required to be undisturbed except for the uses provided in 15A NCAC 02B .0259 (6)
North Carolina Division of Water Quality Internet www.ncwaterquality.or~
943 Washington Square Mall Phone: 252-946-6481 One
Washington, NC 27889 FAX 252-946-9215 NorthCarolina
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The following activities without proper authorization from DWQ aze examples of violations of the buffer rules:
• Failure to properly restore riparian zone after installation ofwater-dependent structures as described above
• Unauthorized clearing of vegetation, including understory vegetation
• Installation of impervious surfaces within the buffer (e.g. buildings, decks, pazking lots, etc.)
• New piping/routing of stormwater through the buffer such that stormwater is not spread out and diffuse
before entering the buffer
Violations of these regulations may result in civil penalty assessment of up $25,000 per day per violation.
Authorization by the DCM is not a riparian buffer authorization. The purpose of this correspondence is to
cleazly communicate to you that you are expected to comply with the riparian buffer rules.
If you have any questions regazding these matters please free to contact a member of the Division of Water
Quality -Riparian Buffer Program -Washington Regional Office at (252) 946-6481.
Sincerely
Al Hodge, on Supervisor
Surface Water Protection
Washington Regional Office
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Central Files
401/Wetlands Unit Central Office -Attn: Amy Chapman
Heather Jacobs, Pamlico-Taz River Foundation, P. O. Box 1854, Washington NC 27889
Larry Baldwin, Neuse River Foundation, 220 South Front St., New Bern NC 28560
Byron Midyette, 90 Kirby Crrange Avenue, Bath NC 27808