20181710 Ver 1_P15049.1 RFMGF Restoration Plan_20190308

Quible
Quible & Associates, P.C.
ENGINEERING • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES • PLANNING • RESTORATION
SINCE 1959
March 8, 2019
Michael E. Warnock
Diversified Real Estate Partners, LLC
306 E Main Street, Suite 200
Lakeland, FL 33801
Re: Stream, Stream Buffer and Wetland Restoration Plan
Red Fox Meadows Subdivision
PIN: 185914347625
280 Ralph Gwaltney Lane
Banner Elk, NC 28604
Michael:
90 Church St., Suite B
Black Mountain, NC 28711
Phone: [phone]
Web: quible.com
Transmitted via email:
michael. warnockPdrepllc.com
Quible & Associates, P.C. (Quible) appreciates the opportunity to provide Diversified Real Estate
Partners, LLC (DREP) with this Stream, Stream Buffer and Wetland Restoration Plan for tributaries of
Whitehead Creek located on the referenced property (Site). Quible is aware that RFM and Gwaltney
Farms, LLC (RFMGF) received Notice of Violations of the Sedimentation and Pollution Control Act for
Construction Activities dated January 4, 2019 (NOV) from the NC Department of Environmental Quality -
Land Quality Section. We are also aware that this Plan will be included in the response to the NOV and
correspondence with other regulatory agencies regarding stream, stream buffer and wetland impacts at
the Site.
BACKGROUND
Quible delineated streams and wetlands as part of a Jurisdictional Determination (PJD) at the Site
between the dates of January 25 and February 28, 2019. Submittal of the PJD and the request for
verification was made to Amanda Jones of USACE and the on -Site verification is scheduled with Jones for
March 21, 2019. Jurisdictional stream and wetland boundaries were flagged in the field by Quible and
subsequently Quible's flags were surveyed by David Stern, PLS. The attached Sheet 7 (Jurisdictional
Streams, Wetlands & 25' Trout Buffer) from the revised Erosion & Sediment Control Plan for Subdivision
Roads at Red Fox Meadows was provided to Quible by Stern on February 25, 2019.

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I M PACTS
Based on the survey by Stern and as shown Sheet 6, which has been marked up by Quible as a reference
for this Plan (Exhibit A), approximately 0.66 acres of trout buffer, 2,134 linear feet of Streams and 0.022
acres of Wetlands were impacted by construction of subdivision roads at the Site. Of these impacts
approximately 0.33 acres of trout buffer, 149 linear feet of streams and 0.018 acres of wetland will
remain as permanent impacts. Quible understands that sediment removal from streams resulting from
RFMGF construction activities was required by the NC Division of Water Resources (NC DWR). It is also
understood that a sediment removal plan was executed by RFMGF, that NC DWR inspected and
approved sediment removal at the Site and that no further sediment removal is required at this time.
This Restoration Plan aims to address the maximum amount of restoration possible for temporary,
currently unpermitted RFMGF impacts at the Site. Additionally, this Plan makes recommendations for
restoration of other areas of the Site that were impacted historically, before development by RFMGF, to
provide additional benefit to water quality in the tributaries to Whitehead Creek and to compensate for
permanent impacts at the Site.
Construction of the subdivision road impacted trout buffer along tributaries of Whitehead Creek
beginning at the Site entrance at about 1200 South Beach Mountain Parkway. These tributaries are
labeled in Exhibit A as UT -1A, UT -113, UT -1131.
Stream impacts occurred on tributaries UT -113 and UT -1131 as three culverts/crossings. One
approximate 40 -feet culvert was installed in Tributary UT -1131 upstream of its confluence with Tributary
UT -113. Two culverts were installed in Tributary UT -113, one approximate 40 -feet culvert just upstream
of the UT -1131 confluence and one approximate 50 -feet culvert further upstream where the subdivision
road crosses UT -113 again northeast of the historic dairy barn and between wetlands labeled WA -4 and
WA -5 (Exhibit A).
Lastly, an approximate 0.022 -acre wetland area has been impacted in the same location as the upstream
culvert on Tributary UT -113. Specifically, temporary wetland impacts occurred along the northeast end
of Wetland WA -4 and are the result of construction of the fill -slope associated with the subdivision road
and the culvert installed in Tributary UT -113 and through the wetland in this location.
SREAM RESTORATION
Stream Restoration will take place along Tributary UT -1131 from the confluence with UT -113 to the west
shoulder of the subdivision road, approximately 80 -linear feet (Exhibit A, orange hatch). Restoration
will include the following steps and will be completed first:
1. Establish a steam channel of appropriate dimension, pattern and profile under the supervision
of Quible.
2. Grade and install a bankfull bench at or slightly below bankfull elevation as identified in the
field and as directed by Quible. The bench will have a toe -slope of approximately 3H:1V and
bee approximately 3 -feet in width on either side of the stream.
3. Grade streambanks above the bankfull bench to slopes of approximately 3H:1V. Quible will
be on Site during construction of the stream channel for construction layout, observation, and
monitoring.

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4. The stream channel will be constructed in the dry. Culverts currently installed as part of the
subdivision road in this area are conveying stream flow down the east roadside ditch and to
another culvert located downslope before flow returns to the stream.
5. Install riparian vegetation and slope matting as described below for buffer restoration once
the stream channel has been constructed as described and approved by Quible. Restoration
of Tributary UT -1131 shall include restoration of the buffer upstream and east of the
subdivision road where road construction has disturbed vegetation and soils.
6. Once construction of the stream channel is complete the culverts(s) beneath the road shall be
reconfigured to allow conveyance of the stream to the newly restored channel.
Typical drawings, details and specifications of restoration techniques described in this Plan will be
provided to DREP prior to the start of construction.
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Wetland restoration will occur at the northeast end of Wetland WA -4 where the fill slope for the
subdivision road has been allowed to impact the approximate 0.004 -acre area (Exhibit A, green hatch).
Wetland restoration will be completed in the following manner:
1. Remove fill soil carefully from the wetland and adjacent area to the north using an excavator
positioned outside the wetland. Soil removed from the wetland will be removed from the area
and staged for later use as backfill. Only fill/upland soils will be removed from the wetland and
care will be taken to leave hydric soils as intact as possible. Quible will be on Site to observe
soil removal.
2. Construct a low (less than four -feet height) retaining wall along the north side of the wetland to
retain the fill slope outside of the wetland. The wall will be constructed to be stable using
sound, industry standard, engineering techniques. The wall will be constructed from outside
the wetland area and care will be taken not to impact the wetland.
3. Post construction of the wall the area of the wetland where soil was removed will be seeded
with Ernst Conservation Seed, NC Mountains FACW Mix-ERNMX-305
(https://www.ernstseed.com/product/nc-mountains-facw-mix/?anchor=26) and mulched with
Wheat straw as described in the Stream Buffer Restoration section of this Plan.
4. The area around UT -113 within the 25 -feet trout buffer that has been disturbed both by RFMGF
and historically shall be restored as described in the Stream Buffer Restoration section of this
Plan.
TROUT BUFFER RESTORATION
Restoration of trout stream buffers will include revegetation of the riparian buffer within 25 -feet of
streams or greater in all locations disturbed by construction of the subdivision road along the tributaries
referenced above and shown blue hatch on Exhibit A. Buffer restoration will include revegetation with
a temporary/nursery crop of annual grain, appropriate for the season, and native riparian herbaceous,
shrub and tree plant species. Specifically, stream buffer areas disturbed by RFMGF will be restored in
the following manner:
1. Lightly scarify soils within the impacted buffer to road shoulder or within 25 -feet of stream with
hard rakes, breaking up soil hard -pan but leaving any existing vegetation as intact as possible.

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Seed the riparian buffer with Ernst Conservation Seeds, NC Mountains Riparian Mix, ENRMX-304
(https://www.ernstseed.com/product/nc-mountains-riparian-mix/?anchor=I1) per
manufacturer specifications and a nursery crop of annual grain appropriate for the season: grain
oats (30 lbs./acre; 1 Jan to 30 Apr), brown top millet (10 lbs./acre; 1 May to 31 Aug), or grain rye
(30 lbs./acre; 1 Sep to 31 Dec).
Mulch entire seeded buffer with wheat straw such that approximately 80% of the ground
surface is covered with straw mulch.
4. Install 700g/m2 Coconut Fiber Coir slope matting from the water's edge to the top of the
streambank per manufacture specification. Overlap, in a downstream direction, where matting
ends meet and trench -in all free edges of matting to a depth of six -inches below ground surface.
5. Install two rows of lives sake tree and shrub species (Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius), Silky
Dogwood (Cornus amomum) and Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) alternating the species at one -
feet on -center spacing from the waters edge towards the top of bank. Live stakes shall be
installed during late fall, winter or early spring while dormant, during leaf off. Before planting,
live stakes shall be lightly scarified and treated with a rooting hormone per manufactures
specification. Live stakes shall be installed right side up to a depth of 2/3 the length of the
stake.
6. Install container shrubs and trees from the landward edge of the coir matting near the top of
the bank consisting of the following species: Rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense), Red
Maple (Acer rubrum) and Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis) at six -feet on center spacing to the
landward side of the stream buffer.
7. Carefully fertilize the restoration area using 17-17-17 fertilizer per manufacturer specification.
Care shall be used to keep fertilizer out of water in the stream channel.
8. Watered restored areas during periods of dry weather until a hearty stand of temporary
vegetation reaches a height of at least six -inches and thereafter as necessary to help ensure
plant survival.
9. Restoration of trout buffers in other areas of the Site that were historically impacted by others
(related to farming and construction of roads and structures) shall include careful removal of
trash and debris within the buffer, revegetation of areas disturbed by removal of trash and
debris shall be revegetated as described above. Other areas of historically impacted buffers
shall be left undisturbed in perpetuity and allowed to naturalize with existing vegetation.
Monitoring
Monitoring of restoration activities will be conducted by Quible. Photographic and written
documentation of construction of this Restoration Plan will be completed by Quible and provided to NC
DEQ -Water Resources and Land Resources Sections and other agencies as requested. On going
monitoring will occur annually for a period of three years and will include a brief letter report and
photographic documentation including any recommended repairs if warranted.

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Quible appreciates the opportunity to provide this Restoration Plan. If there are questions or
comments related to this Plan, please feel free to contact Joel Lenk at 828-280-8375 or
[e-mail].
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QUIBLE & ASSOCIATES, P.C.
Enclosures: Exhibit A- Quible Mark-up of Sheet 6 (Jurisdictional Streams, Wetlands & 25' Trout
Buffer) from Stern, PLS