20141149 Ver 8_Rocky Top - 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
Rocky Top
Address
157 Major Hill Rd
City Snow Camp,
NC 27349
County Alamance
River Basin
Cape Fear River Basin
Watershed &
Sub -watershed
8 -Digit CU: 03030002
14 -Digit CU: 03030002-050050
Will this be part of a stream or wetland project/bank?
OX 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]

Rocky Top Bank Parcel
Sponsor: Restoration Systems
Buffer & Nutrient Offset Site Viability Assessment
Request June 2017
Parcel Background
Restoration Systems (RS), is proposing the Rocky Top 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 19th, 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, (Rocky Top USACE Action ID
SAW -2015-01710). 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 Descriotion
Located approximately 6 miles southwest of Saxapahaw and 2 miles east of Snow Camp in Alamance
County, the 5.16 -acre Parcel is hydrologically situated within the USGS 14 -digit HUC
03030002050050 of the Cape Fear River Basin and Jordan Lake's Haw Sub -Watershed
(NCDWR Subbasin Number 03-06-04). 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 2 unnamed tributaries to Reedy Creek (Best Usage Classification WS -V,
NSW). UT1 is 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. UT2 is not
depicted on USGS topographic mapping or USDA soils mapping; however, it was deemed perennial during
a site visit by DWR staff, and therefore will provide riparian buffer and nutrient offset credit. The drainage
area of these streams is 0.07 mit at the Parcel outfall. 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.
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