20160299 Ver 1_RE Asheboro Bypass Mitigation Site R-2536_20170327

Baker, Virginia
From: Baker, Virginia
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 12:18 PM
To: 'Williams, Andrew E CIV USARMY CESAW (US)'
Subject: RE: Asheboro Bypass Mitigation Site R-2536
Hi Andy,
I was wandering if you had time to talk about the Asheboro Bypass project, I wanted to see what your thoughts were on
the site after walking it on Wed as well as the presentation and overall approach that is being proposed.
I know that stream restoration is an evolving science and had mentioned this project to a co-worker who was intrigued
and found a few articles. These are quite interesting, some of the discussion we heard seems to come from this research
which was done in the same part of the country that Jim and Drew have worked.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110170
http://www.cpp.edu/�marshall/rs414/RS414_Readi ngs/Walter_Merritts_08_Mi I Idam_Legacy_Seds. pdf
Although I am still questioning whether this braided stream wetland complex is the best approach for this site......... and
if that type of habitat was present a few hundred years ago. This stream wetland complex could very well have been
present in the Piedmont, but I am not sure how common place it was. I think if this site was presented as a DMS or Bank
site to the IRT there would be concerns.
Ginny
Work phone - 919-707-7194
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From: Williams, Andrew E CIV USARMY CESAW (US) [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:31 AM
To: Baker, Virginia <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Asheboro Bypass Mitigation Site R-2536
Ginny,
Thanks. I really appreciate your review.
Andrew Williams
Regulatory Project Manager
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District
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From: Baker, Virginia [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 4:15 PM
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Cc: Haupt, Mac <[e-mail]>; Tugwell, Todd J CIV USARMY CESAW (US) <[e-mail]>;
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Asheboro Bypass Mitigation Site R-2536
Hi Andy,
I visited the Asheboro Bypass R-2536 site on March 8 and plan to see the presentation at the Resident Engineer's Office
this coming wed. I ended up walking the sections of the stream that were not flooded by beaver, I did not walk up the
tribs. I should mention that I am tasked with dealing with the mitigation side of all of the DOT onsite mitigation
permitting and assisting Mac with the DMS mitigation since that offsets DOT. Likely I will be assisting more with some
bank mitigation in the future more too. The permitting impacts for Asheboro Bypass has had a few different DWR reps
(Dave Wanucha, Brian Wrenn, Rob Riding) and that position now open (Rob is acting). In the past one rep from DWR
dealt with the impacts and the mitigation. When that person is hired I will make sure to help them get up to speed with
the mitigation part of the project.
During the site visit Drew reminded me that they had presented to DWQ back in August 2013 and then a few months
later to the IRT on 11/12/2013. I had seen the presentation at DWQ, this was right before I moved into the DOT
mitigation position so at the time I had some familiarity with wetland mitigation but not much with stream mitigation,
although since then I have seen many DOT, DMS, and some bank site projects. I don't think I attended the 11-12-13 IRT
meeting and was unable to find the presentation in Ribits (Todd the meeting min refer to the attachment of the
presentation, but it is not attached). I also see that RKK presented at the century center on 8/15/15 to Agency reps for
the Asheboro Bypass which you attended. I did see that 8/15/2015 presentation in our files, I was out of town at the
time, I remember Dave Wanucha telling me about it. RKK has certainly done some really nice mitigation projects in
Pennsylvania based on the presentation photos and I am interested in hearing about their new projects this wed,
although I do have concerns about the applicability of their proposed approach to the Asheboro Bypass project.
Attached is a summary of my observations and comments for this site. I also did some research on the site soils and
terrain, see the attached table and maps. I talked to Mac about this project, specifically the soils, as he knows soils and
has a lot more experience than I do. He thought that it would be unusual to find a site with 15.6 ac of restorable
wetlands near Asheboro and suggested the need for horizon soils data. I showed him pics and he thought the banks had
pretty bright soil. I have summarized my comments and included what Mac said in the comments see attached.
I'll also have a link for some pics I took which I will send in a separate email. You'll see that some of the banks are pretty
rough and some aren't.

Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions. I'll be in tomorrow, otherwise I will see you on Wednesday.
Ginny
Ginny Baker
Transportation Permitting Unit
NCDEQ-Division of Water Resources
1650 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1650
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