Response to DEMLR NOV_20190301

Regarding Planters Ridge Revised, Phase III 2/24/19
Project Id: Wayne -2018-008
To Whom It May Concern,
This letter is in response to the Notice of Violations for the Sedimentation Pollution Control Act
that was received by Certified Mail on February 12th, 2019. This letter is our response to the
mandatory questions requested in the letter.
Corrective action will be completed by 2/27/19. Repairs have been made to the 3 areas that
appeared to have issues.
Rainfall data and self monitoring records were in place before the letter arrived; however, our
inspections and recording were lacking. Please note that our rainfall gauge and self monitoring
forms are located by the mailbox kiosk in case they were not located during the inspection.
We are working with our inspectors to insure self inspections do not go undone and that all
issues are reported to us the same day so that they may be dealt with in a timely manner.
We are repairing the wash out behind the retention pond on lot 65. It appeared the silt fence
had failed so new rolled jute matting has been placed down the spillway with a slow release
behind the overflow. Silt fencing was installed along the damaged area up to the jute matting.
Also removed the silt that had washed approximately 20' past the silt fence.
The pipe discharge located at the back of lot 69 and 70 has had the rip rap extended
approximately 30 additional feet along with rip rapping the side of the ditch where other
washing was occurring. We also flattened the rip rap in order to dissipate and spread the water
to reduce the water energy as it leaves the pipe.
There was also a small area behind lot 70 where there was some light washing going on. We
added silt fencing and some rolled jute matting to slow or detain the water. Please not that we
have added seeding and mulching in all 3 areas in order to get grass up as soon as possible.
The reason why a civil penalty should not be assessed is that we are working hard to
correct/repair our mistakes. We are reeducating ourselves on the self inspection process and
working hard to make sure this does not occur again.
Thank you,
Stacy ohnson
J&N Developers, LLC
Member/Manager
MAR 120;9
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