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WATF9P Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
V W ?./? r North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
-? Alan W. Klimck, P.E. Director
Division of Water Quality
September 27, 2005
DWQ EXP No. 05-1677
Wake County
CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Atlantic Homes, LLC
Attn: Jonathan Skinner
729 Thimble Shoals Blvd., Suite 6-C
Newport News, VA 23606-4242
Subject Property: Austin Creek Subdivision
REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION-EXPRESS REVIEFV PROGRAM
Dear Mr. Skinner:
On September 12, 2005, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application for a 401 Water
Quality Certification and Riparian Buffer Authorization through the Express Review Program. Upon
review of your completed application package (additional materials were received on September 16,
2005), DWQ found several issues that require additional information in order to process your application
to impact protected wetland, streams and/or buffers on the subject property. Unless we receive the
additional information requested below, we will have to move toward denial of your application as
required by 15A NCAC 2H .0506 and will place this project on hold as incomplete.
Please provide the following information so that we may continue to review your project:
1. You have indicated that the estimated impervious surface is 28%. Deed notifications or similar
mechanisms shall be placed on the lots in the single-family residential portion of the subdivision to
assure that this threshold is not exceeded. A signed and notarized original copy of this deed
restriction and two copies are required by DWQ. Furthermore, there are portions of your proposed
plan indicating future townhomes. It is DWQ policy that areas of concentrated development that
are 30% impervious surface area and above must treat stormwater to provide 85% TSS removal and
nutrients (in NSW watersheds). Additionally, DWQ would like to remind you that if a compliance
inspection reveals an impervious area of 30% or greater, then Atlantic Homes, LLC will be required
to retroactively provide stormwater management facilities on the site.
Please respond within three (3) days of the date of this letter by sending five (5) sets of this information to
me in },vriting. The Express Review Program is a process that requires all parties to participate in a timely
manner. If the DWQ feels the Express Review Program is the incorrect review program for your project,
then we may have to return your application and have it reviewed through our regular 401 Water Quality
Certification Program.
401 Oversight/ Express Review Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699.1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] /FAX [phone] /Internet: http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands
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This letter only addresses the application review and does not authorize any impacts to wetlands, waters
or protected buffers. Please be aware that any impacts requested within your application are not
authorized (at this time) by the DWQ. Please call Cynthia Van Der Wiele at [phone] if you have
any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter.
Sincerely,
Cyndi Karoly,
0 401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit
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cc: Jay Keller, Skelly and Loy, 6404 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh, NC 27615
USACE Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
DWQ Raleigh Regional Office
File Copy
Central Files
Filename: 0501677AustinCreck (wakc)EXP+hold2