20061804 Ver 3_More Info Received_20080716

Environmental Consultants, PA
Road - Raleigh, North Carolina 27614 - Phone: [phone] - Fax: [phone]
www,SandEC.com
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, 4?0 Z
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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
Charlotte Office:
236 LePhillip Court, Suite C
Concord, NC 28025
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Greensboro Office:
3817-E Lawndale Drive
Greensboro, NC 27455
Phone: [phone]
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July 15, 2008
S&EC Project # 6658
DWQ Project #06-1804, Ver. 3
O?O? W AT?9QG Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
0 North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
C r
© C Coleen H. Sullins, Director
y 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]
'bT?to Buffaloe Creek [030406, 27-57-16-(3), C, NSW]
REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dear Ms. Flowers:
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.
Addi nal Information Requested:
V 1. Please provide intermittent/perennial stream determination documentation on the site (upstream
Nand-downstream photos and DWQ stream identification forms). 6\1?\
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: [phone] / FAX [phone] / Internet: http://h2o.enr.state,nc.us/ncwettands
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June 16, 2 08
Please provide a more specific, detaile echanism to assure DWQ that: ? /
a.) All lots are buildable without additional wetland, stream or buffer impact, and a `1j?
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
5. Please re-submit your site plans on full plan sheets at a scale of no smaller than 1 "=50'.
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
Stotmwater 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.st?Zte.n-c.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 BMP 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 Form, with all the required items. The BMP Supplement Forms are also available at
the above web site.
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.
Q.) 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,ifypu have any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss s atter.
Since
Cyndi Karoly, Supervisor
tO_401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit
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cc: Lauren Witherspoon, DWQ Raleigh Regional Office
USACE Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
Ms. Rebecca Flowers
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June 16, 2008
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