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Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
December 17, 2008
DWQ# 08-1774
Randolph County
Ms. Ann Bailie, City Manager
City of Trinity
PO Box 50
Trinity, NC 27370
APPROVAL of 401 Water Quality Certification with Additional Conditions
Dear Ms. Bailie:
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to place temporary fill 25 linear feet of stream in
order to construct a sewer line to existing homes known as the Pike Street - CDBG Area Sewer Expansion in Trinity,
NC in Randolph County, as described in your application received by the Division of Water Quality (Division) on
December 2, 2008. After reviewing your application, we have determined that this fill is covered by General Water
Quality Certification Number 3699, which can be viewed on our web site at
http://www.ncwaterqualiiy.oriz/wetlands.html. This Certification allows you to use Nationwide Permit Number 12
when it is issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In addition, you should secure any other applicable federal,
state or local permits before you proceed with your project, including (but not limited to) those required by Sediment
and Erosion Control, Non-Discharge, and Water Supply Watershed regulations. Also, this approval will expire when
the accompanying 404 permits expire unless otherwise specified in the General Certification.
This approval is valid only for the purpose and design that you have described in your application. If you change your
project, you must notify us in writing, and you may be required to send us a new application for a new certification. If
the property is sold, the new owner must be given a copy of the Certification and approval letter and is thereby
responsible for complying with all conditions. If total -wetland fill for this project (now or in the future) exceeds one
acre, or total fill to perennial streams equals or exceeds 150 linear feet, additional compensatory mitigation may be
required as described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h). For this approval to be valid, you must follow the conditions
listed in the attached certification, as well as the additional conditions listed below:
The following impacts are hereby approved as long as all other specific and general conditions of this
Certification are met. No other impacts, including incidental impacts, are approved:
Stream Impacts
Identifier T e of impact Temporary Impact length feet
SCI Temporary fill, returned to natural dimensions with 25
buried ri ra and newly Sloped banks.
Total 25
2. Replanting of vegetation within temporarily disturbed buffer areas located outside of the 15 foot allowable
permanent maintained corridor shall be done in an "in kind" manner immediately following construction.
(Example: Disturbed areas with pre-existing grassed lawns must be replanted with grass. Disturbed areas with
pre-existing trees or woody vegetation must be replanted with trees and woody vegetation. Disturbed areas with
pre-existing forest vegetation must be replanted with forest vegetation including at least two different native
hardwood tree species at a density sufficient to provide 320 trees per acre at maturity. This density cay,,usually be
achieved by planting approximately 436 (10 x 10 spacing) to 681 (8 x 8 spacing) trees per acre.) N"pithCarolina
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North Carolina Division of Water Quality 585 Waughtown Street Phone [phone] Customer Service
Winston-Salem Regional Office Winston-Salem, NC 27107 Fax [phone]
Internet: www.ncwaterguality.org
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Pike Street - CDBG Area Sewer Expansion
City of Trinity
December 17, 2008
DWQ # 08-1774
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3. Upon finishing the project, the Applicant shall fill out and return the enclosed "Certificate of Completion"
to notify NCDWQ when all work included in the §401 Certification has been completed. This certificate
should be returned to the Winston-Salem Regional Office of the NCDWQ at the address listed on the form.
If you do not accept any of the conditions of this certification, you may ask for an adjudicatory hearing. You
must act within 60 days of the date that you receive this letter. To ask for a hearing, send a written petition
which conforms to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes to the Office of Administrative Hearings, 6714
Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-6714. This certification and its conditions are final and binding unless you
ask for a hearing.
This letter completes the review of the Division of Water Quality under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. If you
have any questions, please contact Sue Homewood in the DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office at 336-771-4964 or at
[e-mail]. -
Sincerely,
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
cc: John Thomas, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
Maurico Pacini, DMP, 6415 Old Plank Rd, High Point, NC 27265
DWQ Winston-Salem Regional Office
DWQ Wetlands/401