20181153 Ver 1_Meeting Notes_20180820

Date * 8/20/2018
Site Type Stream and Wetland -FD
Prepared By* Mac H.
Sponsor/Provider DMS-Wildlands
Project Name * South Fork Rattlesnake Creek
NCDMS
ID #
USACE
ID #
DWR 20181153 Version* 1
ID#*
HUC 04
County* Caswell
Coordinates
Degrees North Degrees West
Attendees
WEI- John H.
COE- Todd
WRC- Travis
DMS- Jeff S.
Notes and Sketch,
etc
Basin Roanoke

Project adjacent to some solar panel fields
SFRatt Creek approx 2 sq mile drainage area, includes Yanceyville upstream. Supposedly pond below
project, have not confirmed.
Stream reach relatively short 2500 linear feet but that is what FD asked for. Most of discussion was about
the wetlands. there were two areas ofjusridictional wetlands which were wooded with mature timber. Todd
said these wetlands would be enhancement at best (2:1), not rehab (1:1.5).
Did have some soil work by Kevin Martin. Soils looked similar to what he proposed. Re-establishment
areas showed some hydric indicators at 10 inches.
Main question is moving the stream enough to provide the functional uplift for the wetland ratio that is
proposed. Since these wetlands contained mature timber there was some trepidation with removing alot of
the trees and much of the channel would go thru some of the wetlands. Would the raised stream rehydrate
enough wetlands to counter those lost due to building the new channel.
We asked for more infor to flesh out the possible wetland impact and funcitonal uplift of the wetlands.
Would the benefit of improved stream channel and uplift level of the wetlands exceed the impact of the lost
wetlands?
This one is a close call.
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