20131279 Ver 2_Staff Comments_20161201

Strickland, Bev
From:Scarbraugh, Anthony
Sent:Thursday, December 01, 2016 1:48 PM
To:Huggett, Doug
Cc:Burdette, Jennifer a; Staples, Shane; 'Ken Riley - NOAA Federal'; Pelletier, Josh R SAW
([e-mail]); Maria Dunn; Steve Trowell
Subject:Comments on Hatteras Inlet Channel Maintenance Project
Attachments:Comments on Hatteras Inlet Channel Maintenance Project.pdf

Anthony Scarbraugh
Environmental Senior Specialist
Division of Water Resources – Water Quality Regional Operations
Department of Environmental Quality

252 948 3924 office
[e-mail]

943 Washington Square Mall
Washington, NC 27889

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North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

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ENVIRONMENTAL OOAUTY
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MEMORANDUM
Water Quality Regional
Operations Section
TO: Mr. Anthony Scarbraugh Washington Regional Office
DWR Water Quality Programs
943 Washington Regional Office
FROM: Doug Huggett Respond to Doug Huggett
Major Permits Processing Coordinator Morehead City Office
Coastal Management Division
400 Commerce Avenue
Morehead City NC 28557
DATE: 17 November 2016
SUBJECT: CAMA Application Review
APPLICANT: Dare County, Mr. Robert L. Outten
Dare County Hatteras Inlet Channel Maintenance Project
PROJECT LOCATION: Project area is located on the west side of the Hatteras Inlet complex adjacent
the northeastern tip of Ocracoke Island in the Pamlico Sound, Hyde County, North Carolina.
PROPOSED PROJECT: Applicant proposes to maintain an existing permitted Connector Channel (NC
Department of Transportation) to the Hatteras Inlet gorge from Barney Slough using US Army Corps of
Engineers side cast and hopper dredge plants.
Please indicate below your position or viewpoint on the proposed project and return this form by 7
December 2016. Please contact Steve Trowell at 252-948-3854, if you have any questions regarding the
proposed project. When appropriate, in depth comments with supporting data are requested.
REPLY This office has no objection to the project as proposed.
This office has no comment on the proposed project.
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DONALD R. VAN DER VAART
Doug Huggett, Major Permits Coordinator
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Hatteras Inlet Channel Maintenance Project, Dare County
12/01/2016
Secretary
S. JAY ZIMMERMAN
Director
The following comments are in response to the proposed maintenance of an existing Connecter Channel
(NC Department of Transportation) to the Hatteras Inlet gorge from Barney Slough utilizing the US Army
Corps of Engineers side cast and hopper dredge plants. Upon review of the proposed project, this Office
has the following comments:
• Due to potential for impacts from sedimentation and/or turbidity on SAV beds and other marine
habitat this Office would prefer the use of a hopper dredge plant with a minimum of 100 -foot
buffer between the historically mapped SAV beds and the proposed dredge channel utilizing the
previously authorised nearshore disposal site in the Atlantic Ocean just south of Ocracoke Island.
• If a sidecast dredge is utilized this Office recommends a minimum of 100 -foot buffer between the
historically mapped SAV beds and the proposed dredge channel. If practical, this Office request
the use of sidecast dredge be limited to the out -going tide.
• This Office encourages the applicant to limit dredging within dredge moratorium from April 1 to
September 30 to avoid negative impacts to marine resources to only events associated with storm
or shoaling that creates navigational hazards for commercial and recreational vessels.
If you should have any, questions or require additional information, you may e-mail me at
anthonv.scarbrauah0ricdenr.eov, or contact me by phone at 252-948-3924.
State of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Water Resources—Water Quality Regional Operations—Washington Regional Office
943 Washington Square Mail, Washington, NC 27889
252-946-6481