20190159 Ver 1_Buffer Site Viability Request_20190225

Water R esources
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
secretary
LINDA CULPEPPER
Interim Director
BUFFER MITIGATION &/OR NUTRIENT OFFSET
SITE VIABILTV ASSESSMENT REQUEST
(Form must be complete and all attachments included to process request)
❑D BUFFER MITIGATION ❑ NUTRIENT OFFSET ❑x BOTH
Name
Jamey McEachran
Company
Resource Environmental Solutions
Address
302 Jefferson Street Suite 110 Raleigh, NC 27605
Phone
919-623-9889
Email
[e-mail]
Do you have the right to access the property?
® VES ❑ NO
PARCEL/SITE DETAILS
Proposed Site Name
Strawberry Hill Mitigation Project
Address
3105 Brogden Road
City
Smithfield
County: Johnston
River Basin
Neuse
8 -Digit HUC: 03020201
Sub -watershed (if in
Jordan Lake WS)
NA
Will this be part of a stream or wetland project/bank?
® VES ❑ NO
Has anyone from DWR or the USACE visited the site in the past 12 months? ❑ VES ❑X NO
Has a riparian buffer or stream call been performed by Division of Water Resources staff on the
subject site? ❑ VES ❑X NO
Is the project receiving any state or federal grant money? ❑ VES ❑X NO
Are there any State, Local or Federal Permits associated with the subject site? ❑ VES ❑X NO
PARCEL/SITE ATTACHMENTS (provide items 1-4 as a separate attachment, not to exceed 10 pages)
1. Detailed description of the site including existing site conditions and Aerial Site Map;
2. Include a timeline of landuses and landuse changes from 1990 -Present;
3. Most recent 1:24,000 scale USGS Topo Map showing the site; AND
4. Most recent published NRCS county soil survey showing site; SEND COMPLETE REQUESTS TO:
NCDWR - 401 & Buffer Pennitting
Branch
Attn: Katie Merritt
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
or by email to Katie.Merritt(&ncdenr.gov

ROY COOPER
Governor
'' MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
" LINDA CULPEPPER
Water R esources Interim
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Director
2-8-2019 DWR Use Only: Project #
Stream Origin/Buffer Applicability Determination
for Potential Mitigation Sites
3. MITIGATION PROVIDER OR CONSULTANT
Required Information
1. LAND OWNER INFORMATION
Company: Resource Environmental Solutions
1 a. Name(s) on Recorded Deed
See attached description
1 b. Mailing Address
See attached description
1c. Telephone Number
See attached description
1 d. Email Address: See attached description
2. Has DWR visited the site before? No
Staff Name:
Date Visited:
3. MITIGATION PROVIDER OR CONSULTANT
3a. Individual Name
Jamey McEachran
Company: Resource Environmental Solutions
3b. Mailing address
302 Jefferson St, Suite 110, Raleigh, NC 27605
3c. Telephone no.
919-623-9889
3d. Email address: [e-mail]
3e. Do you have permission to be on this property? Y
4. PROJECT & SITE INFORMATION
4a. Name of project
Strawberry Hill Mitigation Project
4b. County: Johnston
4c. Nearest Named Stream
Polecat Branch
4d. River Basin: Neuse 03020201
4e. Do you have permission to be on this property? Yes
4f. Physical property address/nearest intersection: 3105 Brogden Road
(Brogden and Yelverton Grove Road)
Longitude: -78.316253
Latitude: 35.469763
Is this stream call for the purpose of: BUFFER MITIGATION _X_ and/or NUTRIENT OFFSET
Please attach maps of the site indicating project boundaries 1) on the USGS 1:24,000 Topo, 2) on the most recently
printed NRCS Soil Survey and 3) on a site aerial labeling all the features needing a determination.
Please return form to: Katie Merritt
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617 or
Email: [e-mail]
Please contact the Central Office at [phone] if you have any questions.
State of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Water Resources
1617 Mail service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
919 807 6300

I LAND OWNER INFORMATION
(la) Name(s)
Bridgitte Edwards
Jan Hill
Melrose Haas
William Carpenter
on Recorded
Deed
(lb) Mailing
3200 Brogden Rd
3188 Stevens Sausage
3299 Brogden Rd
3032 Yelverton Grove
Address
Smithfield NC
Rd Smithfield NC
Smithfield, NC
Rd
27577
27577
27577
Smithfield NC 27577
(1c) Telephone
919-902-8999
919-934-2989
919-632-0212
919-631-1642
Number
(ld) Email
2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 Project Description
The Strawberry Hill Mitigation Project (the "Project") is in Johnston County, NC. A combination of stream
restoration and stream enhancement, as well as buffer restoration and buffer preservation are proposed to
improve water quality and ecological function and protect these waters in perpetuity. The northern and
southern sections of the Project, though not contiguously connected by an easement, are interconnected
through their shared aquatic function. Their respective primary streams confluence just downstream of the
project area before draining to Polecat Branch. The streams and associated riparian areas downstream and
adjacent to the Project are currently forested; therefore, by restoring, enhancing, and preserving streams
and buffers within the Project, even greater water quality and ecological uplift will be gained by connecting
these ecosystems. RES will establish minimum 50 -foot buffers throughout the project area and certain
reaches will have 100 -foot buffers. All planted buffers will generate riparian buffer credits. Areas of
existing forested buffer will generate preservation riparian buffer credits except for recently harvested areas
within 30 feet of stream tops of banks. The Site provides 21.81 acres of proposed conservation easement.
The conceptual design presents 4,448 linear feet of warm stream mitigation generating 3,446 Stream
Mitigation Units (SMU) .
2.2 Project Location
The Site is located in Johnston County in Smithfield, NC (Figures 1 and 2). The GPS coordinates of the
Site are 35.9814'N and -79.6412'W. The Project is on all four corners of the intersection of Yelverton
Grove Road and Brogden Road. The property at 3105 Brogden Road provides access to the Site.
2.3 Service Area
The Site is located within the Neuse River Basin (8 -digit USGS HUC Cataloging Unit 03020201, TLW
03020201140010, and NC Division of Water Resources (DWR) sub -basin 03-04-02). This proposed Project
will result in significant ecological improvements including water quality improvement, restoring
hydrologic connectivity, and habitat restoration.
The Project's watershed is primarily a mix of row crops, pastureland, and some forest and has historically
been so since before the 1940's (Figure 5). Water quality stressors currently affecting the Project include
Strawberry Hill Mitigation Project
DMS Project Contract Number 7745
Proposal 16-007576
February 2019

row crop production and lack of riparian buffer. There are no current conservation easements or options
that conflict with the proposed mitigation bank.
3 EXISTING CONDITIONS
3.1 Existing Reach Conditions
The Project is comprised of two intermittent stream channels and two man-made ditches. The stream
channels are broken into three reaches: JH1-A, JH1-B, and JHS. The ditches are broken into three reaches:
JH2, JH3, and JH4 (Figure 4). JH1 and JH5 flow directly into Polecat Branch approximately three-quarters
of a mile downstream of the site, while the ditches (JH2, JH3, and JH4) flow directly into stream reach JH5
on-site (Figure 3).
3.2 Vegetation and Wildlife
Current land use around the Project is primarily composed of row crops, forest, and early successional
riparian forest. The primary row crop currently in production is soybean which directly abuts most of the
banks of Project streams and ditches. Part of the uppermost portion of the main Project reach (JH1-A)
contains a forest along the left bank that consists of red maple (Acer rubrum), loblolly pine (Pinus taeda),
southern red oak (Quercus falcata), water oak (Quercus nigra), laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia), sweetbay
(Magnolia virginiana) , sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) , common persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) ,
mockernut hickory, (Carya tomentosa) , Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense) , roundleaf greenbriar (Smilax
rotundifolia) , poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) , muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia) , Japanese honeysuckle
(Lonicera japonica), giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea), and Nepalese browntop (Microstegium vimineum).
The other distinct community type within the Project is regenerating forest. These areas, along reaches JH1
and JH5, were clear-cut approximately four to five years ago and contain regenerating loblolly pine, water
oak, cherrybark oak (Quercus pagoda), red maple, sweetgum, American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis),
black elderberry (Sambucus nigra), sawtooth blackberry (Rubus argutus), muscadine, winged sumac (Rhus
copallinum) , dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) , and woolgrass (Scirpus cyperinus) . Also, stream and
ditch channels contain locally dense areas of murdannia (Murdannia sp.) and narrowleaf cattail (Typha
angustifolia) .
Notable exotic invasive species include Chinese privet, Japanese honeysuckle, Nepalese browntop, and
narrowleaf cattail.
3.3 Constraints
Minimal constraints are present or proposed on the Project. There are no significant constraints to the
Project. The Project is not in a FEMA 100 -year Floodplain or Regulatory Floodway. It is not anticipated
that the stream design will require floodplain permitting. A tree survey will be conducted to design the
mitigation measures and access to minimize impacts to significant specimen trees. Trees that are necessary
to remove for project construction will be utilized for in -stream habitat structures.
The removal of one existing culvert crossing and the addition of two culvert crossings will be required to
provide landowner access to all areas of the parcels. Potential wetlands may exist within the regenerating
forest area along reach JH1-B. These areas will be delineated during the mitigation plan phase of the project
and the stream design will avoid and minimize impacts.
Strawberry Hill Mitigation Project
DMS Project Contract Number 7745
Proposal 16-007576
February 2019

There are overhead transmission lines and buried water lines along roadsides adjacent to Project reaches.
Two fire hydrants exist along the water lines: One is located along Brogden Road at the downstream end
of reach JH1-B and the other at the downstream end of reach JH1-A. The Project will not affect these
utilities and the proposed easement will not intersect the existing utility easements.
Several of the project reaches intercept unbuffered concentrated flow from upstream streams and ditches;
therefore 0.1 -acre areas around the tops of these reaches within the easement are not available for buffer
crediting per DWR guidance. Therefore, a 120° angle wedge from each reach, 50 feet below the easement
boundary, is removed from its associated buffer. These areas of exemption are still within the conservation
easement and will nonetheless be planted. Additionally, tree harvest areas within 30 feet of the top of bank
in buffer preservation areas are not considered credit generating areas.
3.4 Project Development
Proposed mitigation for the Site involves Restoration and Enhancement Level II. Reaches identified for
restoration will be those that exhibit systemic significantly impaired habitat and stability and are in an early
phase of the channel evolution continuum. Without significant intervention, restoration reaches are
expected to continue to degrade before reaching equilibrium.
Enhancement reaches will require a lighter touch and may include bank protection, bank grading,
headcut/gully repair, and installation of structures. Enhancement reaches will not receive a standard "one
size fits all" treatment. Rather, the work will be targeted to address specific impairments, with other channel
segments largely untouched. This approach will provide cost effective, low risk mitigation that addresses
specific project goals.
Buffer mitigation efforts along the Project streams and ditches will be accomplished through the planting,
establishment, and protection of a hardwood forest community. The result will be a riparian habitat that
functions to mitigate nutrient and sediment inputs from the surrounding uplands.
The proposed mitigation approach is based on functional considerations, and generally accepted practices
in North Carolina. Restoration reaches will typically include a meandering single -thread stream pattern and
proposed sinuosity will depend on local reference reach conditions and hydrologic and hydraulic modeling.
Strawberry Hill Mitigation Project
DMS Project Contract Number 7745
Proposal 16-007576
February 2019

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Exhibit C
LANDOWNER AUTHORIZATION FORM
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PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRITION:
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Parcel ID Number: Z 6 02 400 — If b — 1003 I
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Street Address: 32,00 &0 -) d V P7 R d,
Property Owner (please print):
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The undersigned, registered property owner(s) of the above property, do hereby authorize
EBX, Neuse I, LLC, Resource Environmental Solutions ("RES"), the NC Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, their employees,
agents or assigns to have reasonable access to the above referenced property for the evaluation of
the property as a potential stream, wetland and/or riparian buffer mitigation project, including
conducting stream and/or wetland determinations and delineations.
Property Owners(s) Address: 3,2DD 6rMder-'. VA
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Property Owner Telephone Number: q I q ` q D,Q- s % -/
I/We hereby certify the above information to be true and accurate to the best of my/our knowledge.
Authorized Signature)
(Date)

Exhibit C
LANDOWNER AUTHORIZATION FORM
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PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRITION:
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Property Owner (please print):
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The undersigned, registered property owner(s) of the above property, do hereby authorize
EBX, Neuse I, LLC, Resource Environmental Solutions ("RES"), the NC Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, their employees,
agents or assigns to have reasonable access to the above referenced property for the evaluation of
the property as a potential stream, wetland and/or riparian buffer mitigation project, including
conducting stream and/or wetland determinations and delineations.
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Authorized Signature)
(Date)

Exhibit C
LANDOWNER AUTHORIZATION FORM
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PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRITION:
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Property Owner (please print): M e Iro Se H act S
The undersigned, registered property owner(s) of the above property, do hereby authorize
EBX, Neuse I, LLC, Resource Environmental Solutions ("RES"), the NC Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, their employees,
agents or assigns to have reasonable access to the above referenced property for the evaluation of
the property as a potential stream, wetland and/or riparian buffer mitigation project, including
conducting stream and/or wetland determinations and delineations.
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Exhibit C
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PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRITION:
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Property Owner (please print): Vi 1/1,0M ( Garp Ph f r
The undersigned, registered property owner(s) of the above property, do hereby authorize
EBX, Neuse I, LLC, Resource Environmental Solutions ("RES"), the NC Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, their employees,
agents or assigns to have reasonable access to the above referenced property for the evaluation of
the property as a potential stream, wetland and/or riparian buffer mitigation project, including
conducting stream and/or wetland determinations and delineations.
Property Owners(s) Address: 3032 1 1 1Wfo h f n, yr Aft d
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