20010357 Ver 1_More Info Received_20010514

Environmental
MAIV
NCDENR-DWQ
Attn: Mr. John Dorney
4401 Reedy Creek Road
Raleigh, NC 27606
RE: Revised Site Plan-Upchurch Farms, LLC
Cary, Wake County, North Carolina
(Latitude/Longitude: 35047'00" N 78°51'10"W)
S&EC Project 98-3724
DWQ project 010357
Dear Mr. Dorney,
Consultants, Inc.
Phone: [phone] • Fax: [phone]
May 11th, 2001
In response to your letter dated April 26th, 2001 (see attached copy), Upchurch Farms,
LLC has revised the site plan for the Upchurch Farms subdivision. The only impacts you
questioned were impacts Rl, R2, 01, and 02. Impacts R2, 01, and 02 have been
completely elimi rl - A. Only one impact, "R1-REVISED," is now proposed for the
project where thf se iri:7%cts were previously proposed. This impact was minimized, but
it is necessary to allow dcr.ess to high ground.
By eliminating; impaer P.2, C % and 02, and revising impact R1 to impact RI-REVISED,
194.71inear ft of F -yearn. chp anel impacts and 0.114 acres of jurisdictional wetland
impacts will be,. in.*(na --: from the 558 linear ft. (97.5 linear ft. of significant/important
channel) and 0.2 ;.ores initially applied for under NWP 39. Thus, the revised site plan
now calls for a total of 363.3 linear ft. of stream channel impacts (97.5 linear ft. of which
are significant/important channel impacts) and 0.106 acres of jurisdictional wetland
impacts under NWP 39.
Based on these revisions, S&EC does not believe that mitigation is necessary for this
project because impacts to jurisdictional wetlands and waters of the U.S. are less than 1
acre and less than 150 ft. of significant stream channel per tributary. Therefore, a site
meeting with Dave Penrose of NC-DWQ should not be necessary.
Wetland Delineation/Permitting/Mitigation Soil/Site Evaluations On-Site Septic Systems Environmental Assessments/Audits
Neuse Basin and Watershed Buffer Evaluations Groundwater Hydrology Endangered Species
Western Branch Offices: [phone] • [phone] • [phone]
Please call me if you have any questions or if you require any additional information.
Sincerely,
D ??
Jim Cooper
Environmental Scientist
CC:
Ms. Amanda Jones
US Army Corps of Engineers
6508 Falls of the Neuse Road, Suite 120
Raleigh, NC 27615
Attachments:
Revised Site Plan Map
Copy of DWQ letter (project # 010357) dated April 26'x', 2001
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April 26, 2001
DWQ Project # 010357
Wake County
CERTIFIED MAIL-RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Upchurch Farms, LLC
1001 Navaho Drive, Ste 150
Raleigh, NC 27609
Dear Sirs:
The Divisi Water Quality ha iewed your plans for the discharge of fill material
into 0.25 ear fe f streams and 558 cres of wetlands located at Upchurch Farms, LLC in
!612ke Cou residential development a escribed in your application dated March 12, 2001.
Insufficient evidence is present in our files to conclude that your project must be built as planned in
waters and/or wetlands in accordance with 15A NCAC 2H .0506. Therefore, unless modifications
of the proposal are made as described below, we will have to move toward denial of your 401
Certification as required by 15A NCAC 2H .0507(e) and will place this project on hold as
incomplete until we receive this additional information, we are requesting (by copy of this letter)
that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers place your project on administrative hold.
Please provide us with information supporting your position that states your project must
be constructed as planned and that you have no practicable alternative to placing fill in these
waters and/or wetlands. Specifically can you realign the road to minimize impacts R1, R2, 01 and
02? Also Mr. Penrose of DWQ will need to make a visit to determine if stream mitigation will be
e-eded. Any documentation such as maps and narrative that you can supply to address
alternative designs for your project may be helpful in our review of your 401 Certification. Also this
project will require compensatory mitigation as described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506(h). Your
mitigation proposal is insufficient because none was proposed.
Please respond within three weeks of the date of this letter by sending a copy of this
information to me and one copy to Steve Mitchell, Raleigh Regional Office at [phone] If we
do not hear from you in three weeks, we will assume that you no longer want to pursue this project
and we will consider the project as withdrawn. I can be reached at 919-733-9646 if you have any
questions.
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n n R. Dorney
cc: Raleigh DWQ Regional Office
Raleigh Field Office Corps of Engineers
Central Files
File Copy
Dave?gnrose
Kevin Martin: Soil & Environmental Consultants
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Division of Water Quality
Wetlands1401 Unit: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Michael F Easley
Governor
Sherri Evans-Stanton, Acting Secretary
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Kerr T Stevens
Division of Water Quality
1621 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 2 7699-1 62 1
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