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Eric Alsmeyer
US Army Corps of Engineers
Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
3331 Heritage Trade Drive, Suite 105
Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587
Dear Mr. Alsmeyer:
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
June 9, 2008
RE: Division of Water Quality comments on Second Creek and Homestead mitigation sites
Berger Bank
Rowan County
Staff from the Division of Water Quality have reviewed the mitigation report and conducted a site visit to
these mitigation sites with you on April 10, 2008. The following comments are our recommendation as to credit
release from these sites for this year.
1. Second Creek site
a. Wetlands - We believe that the wetlands on the site meet all relevant success criteria and that the
full allotment of credit from the site should be released.
b. Streams - We believe that there has been no demonstrable change in the nature of this system in
the past year and that the lower one-half (appx.) of the site is not showing stream characteristics while the
upper half of the site is a functioning stream. Since credits were released for the upper half of the stream last
year and the lower half of the site is not a stream and does not appear to becoming a stream as presently
designed, we do not believe that more stream credits should be released for this site.
2. Homestead site
a. Wetlands - We believe that the wetlands on the site meet all relevant success criteria and that the
full allotment of credit from the site should be released.
b. Streams - We support the release of additional stream credit as intermittent stream in a similar
process as you approved last year.
Please contact myself or Eric Kulz at 919-733-9646 if you have any questions.
Cc: Eric Kulz
Tammy Hill
Larry Eaton
Mike O'Rourke, Berger and Associates
Kathy Matthews, EPA
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