20141149 Ver 7_VIABILITY ASSESSMENT REQUEST FORM 2017_20170531

Water Resources
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
S. JAY ZIMMERMAN
Director
BUFFER MITIGATION WOR NUTRIENT OFFSET
SITE VIABILITY ASSESSMENT REQUEST
(Form must be complete and all attachments included to process request)
❑ BUFFER MITIGATION ❑ NUTRIENT OFFSET ❑X BOTH
Name
Raymond Holz (Agent)
Company
Restoration Systems
Address
1101 Haynes St. Suite 211
Phone
919-604-9314
Email
[e-mail]
PARCEL/SITE DETAILS
Proposed Site Name
Orphan Creek
Address
4823 Salem Church Rd
City Haw River, NC
27258
County Alamance
River Basin
Cape Fear River Basin
Watershed &
Sub -watershed
8 -Digit CU: 03030002
14 -Digit CU: 03030002-050010
Will this be part of a stream or wetland project/bank?
❑X YES ❑ NO
Has a riparian buffer or stream call been performed by Division of Water
Resources staff? ® YES O NO
Is the project receiving any state or federal grant money? ❑ YES ❑D NO
NO PARCEL/SITE ATTACHMENTS (if more than io pages, a hard copy will be
required)
1. Brief description of the site including existing site conditions and land use(s);
2. Most recent 1:24,000 scale USGS Topo Map showing the site;
3. Most recent published NRCS county soil survey showing site; AND
4. Aerial Site Map
SEND COMPLETE REOUESTS TO:
NCDWR - 401 & Buffer Permitting Branch
Attn: Katie Merritt
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
or by email to [e-mail]

Orphan Creek Bank Parcel
Sponsor: Restoration Systems
Buffer & Nutrient Offset Site Viability Assessment
Request June 2017
Parcel Background
Restoration Systems (RS), is proposing the Orphan Creek Bank Parcel (Parcel), to provide riparian
buffer and nutrient offset mitigation within the Cape Fear River Basin (Cataloging Unit 03030002)
within the Haw River Sub -watershed of Jordan Lake. The Parcel was evaluated on December
16th, 2014 by Virginia Baker of the NC Division of Water Resources (NCDWR). Ms. Baker's evaluation was
part of an inter -agency review, including the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), to determine if
stream features located within the site are applicable to provide compensatory stream mitigation
under RS' Cape Fear 02 Phase One Umbrella Banking Instrument, (Orphan Creek USACE
Action ID SAW -2015-01698). Riparian areas adjacent to features within the parcel providing
compensatory mitigation for stream impacts, will be restored and provide riparian buffer mitigation and
nutrient off -set credit.
Parcel Description
Located approximately 2 miles north of Saxapahaw, NC and 7 miles southeast of Graham, NC in
astern Alamance County, the 19.19 -acre Parcel is hydrologically situated within the USGS 14 -digit
HUC 03030002050040 of the Cape Fear River Basin and Jordan Lake's Haw Sub -Watershed
(NCDWR Subbasin Number 03-06-02). The Parcel is located in a region of the state dominated
by agriculture and livestock; restoration of the riparian buffer is expected to result in immediate
water quality benefits within the vicinity of the Parcel through the removal of livestock access to Parcel
streams.
The Parcel contains 4 unnamed tributaries to Meadows Creek (Best Usage Classification WS -
V, NSW). UT1 and UT1B are subject to the Jordan Lake Water supply Nutrient Strategy (15A NCAC
02B .0267 & 15A NCAC 02B .0268) and thus suitable to generate riparian buffer and nutrient offset credit.
UT1A, UT2, and UT3 are not depicted on USGS topographic mapping or USDA soils mapping; however,
were deemed perennial (UT1A and UT3) and intermittent (UT2) during a site visit by DWR staff, and
therefore will provide riparian buffer and/or nutrient offset credit. The drainage area of these streams
ranges from 0.04 miz to 0.2 mi'. Additional land use practices including the maintenance and removal of
riparian vegetation and the relocation, dredging and straightening of onsite streams resulted in degraded
water quality and unstable channel characteristics (stream entrenchment, erosion, bank collapse, and
stream aggradation).
Please find the following figures attached:
- Figure 1.
Site Location and Service Area
- Figure 2.
NRCS Overview
- Figure 3.
USGS 1:24,000 Scale Topo Map
- Figure 4.
Historic Conditions Plan View
- Figure 5.
Restoration Plan
- Figure 6.
Credit Determination

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