20120776 Ver 2_WRC Comments_20170905

Homewood, Sue
From: Leslie, Andrea J
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 12:31 PM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: Homewood, Sue; Hodges, Kinnon B
Subject: UT to Gap Creek
Hi Ryan,
Due to safety issues with an overhead transmission line, you asked if contractors would be allowed to work within
the trout moratorium to install a culvert on an unnamed tributary to Gap Creek for the Boone water line project. Gap
Creek is a brook trout stream, and the moratorium is Oct 15 - April 15; it is important to minimize the loss of sediment
from this project in order to protect trout spawning downstream. The area of work is already in the dry, with a dike
placed in the stream and flows pumped around the area. We ask that you replace the culvert if at all possible before
October 15. However, if the work must proceed within the trout moratorium, we will allow it, providing that you
install the culvert in the dry and allow temporary vegetation to grow enough to stabilize the banks and floodplain
before turning the flows back through the culvert.
Andrea
Andrea Leslie
Mountain Habitat Conservation Coordinator
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
20830 Great Smoky Mountain Expressway
Waynesville, NC 28786
828-558-6011; 828-400-4223 (cell)
www.ncwildlife.or
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