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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20061804 Ver 3_General Correspondence_20080716Environmental Consultants, PA Road - Raleigh, North Carolina 27614 - Phone: (919) 846-5900 - Fax: (919) 846-9467 Division of Water Quality 401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit Attn: Cyndi Karoly/Ian McMillan 2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250 Raleigh, NC 27604 Re: Reply to the Division of Water Quality's Request for More Information The Village at Flowers Plantation Johnston County, NC To Mrs. Karoly and Mr. McMillan: On behalf of the owner, Mrs. Rebecca Flowers of River Dell company, Inc., we hereby request that you provide us additional time to respond to your letter dated June 16, 2008 (see attached). Since this project is a request for an individual permit and individual certification and was put on public notice, we feel it is important for the regulatory agencies, the applicant, the engineers and the consultant to meet and discuss any questions or concerns that the agencies have, in addition to any concerns that may have been brought to attention during the public comment period. Therefore, a Post Public Notice Agency meeting has been scheduled for July 16, 2008. At this meeting, we anticipate to address and/or clarify the Division of Water Quality's questions within the June 16th letter. Please accept this letter as a request to the Division of Water Quality to not withdraw this project from the 401 Certification Program and to allow an extension of our response time till after the July 16, 2008 meeting, if this is not acceptable please let us know as soon as possible. Sincerely,/ o Zarzecki Soil & Environmental Consultants, P.A. CC: Mrs. Rebecca Flowers-River Dell Company, Inc. Mr. Thomas Brown-USACE Raleigh Regulatory Field Office Attachments: 1) Request for More Information letter-dated 06/16/08 r? Pm 0 W F? D? JUL 1 6 2008 Charlotte Office: 236 LePhillip Court, Suite C Concord, NC 28025 Phone: (704) 720-9405 Fax: (704) 720-9406 Greensboro Office: 3817-E Lawndale Drive Greensboro, NC 27455 Phone: (336) 540-8234 Fax: (336) 540-8235 July 15, 2008 S&EC Project # 6658 DWQ Project #06-1804, Ver. 3 O?0F W A 1-f Michael F. Easley, Governor William G. Ross Jr., Secretary 1- North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Q ^? Coleen H. Sullins, Director Division of Water Quality June 16, 2008 DWQ Project # 06-1804, Ver. 3 Johnston County CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Ms. Rebecca Flowers River Dell Company, Inc. 4880 NC 42 East, Clayton, NC 27527 Subject Property: The Village At Flowers Plantation Ut to Mill Creek [030402, 27-39, WSIV, NSW] PD 'to Buffaloe Creek [030406, 27-57-16-(3), C, NSW]? LP !!11 D REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION JUL 1 6 2008 DENR - WATER QUALITY Dear Ms. Flowers: WETLANDS AND STORMWATER BRANCH On May 1, 2008, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated April 28, 2008, to fill or otherwise impact 0.127 acres of 404/wetland (0.122 acres permanent impact and 0.005 acres temporary impact), 1,023 linear feet, permanent, important stream impact, 416 linear feet, permanent, unimportant stream impact 220 linear feet, temporary stream impact, and 88,472 square feet of Zone 1 Neuse River basin protected riparian buffers and 43,718 square feet of Zone 2 Neuse River basin protected riparian buffers to construct a mixed-use development. On May 30, 2008, the DWQ received additional information from you, however, the DWQ has determined that your application remains incomplete and/or provided inaccurate information as discussed below. The DWQ will require additional information in order to process your application to impact protected wetlands and/or streams on the subject property. Therefore, unless we receive five copies of the additional information requested below, we will place this project on hold as incomplete until we receive this additional information. If we do not receive the requested information, your project will be formally returned as incomplete. Please provide the following information so that we may continue to review your project. Additional Information Requested: Please provide intermittent/perennial stream determination documentation on the site (upstream --and-downstream photos and DWQ stream identification forms). 2., Buffer mitigation is required for all road crossings that impact 150 linear feet of riparian buffer or more. Please submit a mitigation plan detailing the amount of buffer impact at crossings 1 & 3 and how the impact will be mitigated. 3. Please provide documentation from the NCEEP indicating their willingness to accept your request to purchase buffer mitigation credit to mitigate for the proposed crossings 1 & 3 buffer impacts listed in your PCN application per section VIII, No. 2. 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: 919-733-1786 / FAX 919-733-6893 / Internet: http://h2o.enr.state. nc.us/ncwetlan ds An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - 50% Recycled/10% Post Consumer Paper NorthCarohna Naturally Ms. Rebecca Flowers Page 2 of 3 June 16, 2008 4. Please provide a more specific, detailed mechanism to assure DWQ that: a.) All lots are buildable without additional wetland, stream or buffer impact, and b.) That stormwater from the entire site will be treated since the site is in the Neuse basin either through level spreaders for sites with low impervious coverage or other means for higher impervious coverage Please re-submit your site plans on full plan sheets at a scale of no smaller than 1"=50'. 6. Per the requirements of the Neuse Riparian Buffer Rule, all stormwater drainage from this site must meet the state's diffuse flow requirements as set forth in Chapter 8 of the North Carolina Stormwater BMP Manual, available at: http://h2o.enr.state.ne.us/su/bmp forms.htm Please provide one Level Spreader Supplement Form for each proposed level spreader, available at: http•//l12o.enr,L.te.n°,.us/su/bmp forms.htm. Please include the Required Items checklist and all items listed therein. If the filter strip is too steep for a level spreader in any location, then you must provide a BNB P that removes a minimum of 85 percent TSS and 30 percent TN from the stormwater generated by this project. For each proposed BMP, please provide a completed BMP Supplement Fornt, with all the required items. The BMP Supplement Forms are also available at the above web site. 7. Please provide a conceptual stormwater management plan for the project that includes the following: a.) A depiction of the drainage areas on the site. b.) An estimation of the percentage imperviousness associated with each of the drainage areas. c.) A calculation of the water quality volume associated with each drainage area. d.) A depiction of a proposed BMP (state the type of BMP you plan to use) on the site plan that is correctly sized based on the water quality volume. Please submit this information within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter. If we do not receive this requested information within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter, your project will be withdrawn and you will need to reapply with a new application and a new fee. 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 Ms. Cyndi Karoly or Mr. Ian McMillan at 919-733- 1786 if ypu have any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this fatter. SincereM Cndi Karoly, Supervisor 1 O versight/Express Review Permitting Unit CBK/?m cc: Lauren Witherspoon, DWQ Raleigh Regional Office USACE Raleigh Regulatory Field Office Ms. Rebecca Flowers Page 3 of 3 June 16, 2008 File Copy Central Files Bob Zarzecki, S&EC, P.A., 11010 Raven Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27614 Filename: 061804V er3TheV illageAtFlowersPlantation(Joh nston)O n_Hold F •.