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December 2006

Monitoring Report for CCC Shoreline Project

This annual report is required as part of the conditions set for the permitting ofDWQ
Project #050589. Copies are being sent to both the Central Office and to the Wilmington
Regional Office, as specified by DWQ. Monitoring is also required by the grant between
CCC and the CWMTF regarding both WQ and vegetation monitoring. The College has
expanded upon that, to the extent allowed by budget, to include monitoring of SA V, fish,
benthic and epibenthic organisms (including shellfish) and the experimental components
of the sills (as regards both erosion prevention and recruitment of oysters).

Water Quality Monitoring
Water quality monitoring to date has been done by Jennifer Webber, NCSU grad student
and Dr. Bill Kirby-Smith of the Duke Marine Lab.. Pre-monitoring was done in
November 2004 and November 2005. Initial fecal coliform done by the Department of
Shellfish Sanitation indicated> 1600 cells/100 ml of effluent. The first post-construction
monitoring was done November 16-18, 2006. Dr. Kirby-Smith analyzed the samples for
fecal coliform and found> 1600 cells/100 ml of effluent. Sediment analysis is done by
DWQ in Washington NC and nutrient/metals analysis is being done by DWQ in Raleigh.

. The WQ monitoring will be done for up to three years post-construction, including metals
analysis, N and P, suspended solids, oil/grease and fecal coliform, using composite
samples over a six-hour discharge period following a rain event of up to 1.5 inches.
Water quality benefits of the proj ect are expected due to the creation of a stormwater
BMP area as part of the shoreline project. This should help to reduce storm water runoff
into Bogue Sound SA waters from much of our campus, about half of which has
impervious cover.

In addition to the WQ requirements of the grant agreement, CCC is collecting data in
several more ways:
*YSI data was collected from September-December 2004 and will be collected again
post-construction.
*Shellfish Sanitation has an established sampling station in front of the site.
*Dr. Bill Kirby-Smith has installed a flow meter in a stormwater culvert and he has
collected data from February 27,2005 to the present.

Monitoring of Vegetation (marsh grasses)
Survival of vegetation is being monitored by CCC student Janet Hansen and separately
by the NC Coastal Federation staff. NC Coastal Federation did pre-monitoring in April
2005.
Carolyn Currin of NOAA met with Ms. Hansen in October to provide basic training in
monitoring the marsh restoration sites by assessing vegetation percent cover and density
twice annually, in spring and fall, using random sampling to select at least ten transects.
Ms. Hansen monitored in October-December 2006 and will repeat the survey in May

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Monitoring of Sill Design
Dr. Currin plans to study the two experimental sill sections (stacked oyster bags and reef
balls) and compare them to the traditional stone sill sections for their ability to stabilize
shorelines. NC Coastal Federation did pre-monitoring (slope profiles as well as
vegetative cover via transects) of the site in April 2005 and again post-construction.

Monitoring of SA V
Dr. Patrick Biber, formerly of NOAA, is contracted to do seagrass monitoring along the
project site. He is contracted to return in 2007 to do a post-construction survey of SA V.

Monitoring ofFish
The fish monitoring is being done by Tim Ellis, NCSU graduate student, under the
direction of Dr. John Miller. Pre-construction monitoring was done using both a seine
and a fyke net. Tim has also offered to teach CCC students about local fish populations,
fish habitat and sampling methods. Tim has been sampling the different parts ofthe
marsh restoration project monthly this fall finishing around mid-December, and is
contracted to do a similar study next summer. His efforts will also include
data analysis and writing a summary report consisting of past years sampling data.

Monitoring of Oysters
Bagged oyster shells were stacked for use as one component of the experimental portion
of the sill; these were placed in July 2006. According to Skip Kemp of the Aquaculture
Program at CCC, a natural "set" of oyster larvae occurred soon after placement, and the
spat grew well this fall. Mr. Kemp will continue to monitor the success of those oysters
located in front of the mariculture facility at Carteret Community College.
. The NC Coastal Federation is also monitoring the following parameters for oysters at this
site: oyster density, size, recruitment (spat counts), presence of associated fauna, reef
rugosity, reef footprint, 4 water quality parameters, and 4 site characteristics (such as
current velocity, substrate, sedimentation, etc).

Benthic Monitoring
Melisa Wong, graduate student at UNC Institute of Marine Science, is gathering data on
benthic macrofauna in the project area via sediment cores. She has preconstruction data
as well as data from immediate post-construction; further sampling will be done in 2007.
A separate benthic monitoring plan designed by Dr. Bill Kirby-Smith of Duke University
Marine Lab involves CCC marine biology and/or biology classes. Dr. Kirby-Smith
oversees the plan, assist students with taxonomic identification of organisms, and
correlates the data. PVC pipes were set on September 16, 2005 at intervals along the
proposed sill site.
A summary of the recruitment results from data gathered 3/1/06 were as follows:
A. Sessile species - Barnacles, green algae, sea squirts, brown algae, Bryozoa,
oysters, tube worms
B. Motile species - spider crab, snails, polychaete worms, amphipods, sea roach,
skeleton shrimp
C. Zonation (top down)

0- 12" small barnacles
12" - 36" barnacles, sea squirts, Bryozoa, brown algae
36" - 48" Bryozoa, sea squirts, few oysters, few red and green algae, few
brown algae

Additional Monitoring by NC Coastal Federation
NOAA grant stipulations require NCCF to have 2 structural and 1 functional parameter
for both wetland and oyster monitoring, along with some other requirements. The NCCF
monitoring plan meets all requirements and far exceed the requirements for parameters,
having 5 structural and 4 functional parameters for wetlands and 4 functional and 10
structural for oysters. Other NOAA requirements for monitoring include doing
pre-implementation monitoring, having a reference site, and having a
mechanism to evaluate success.

Specifically, for wetlands, NCCF has monitored and will continue to periodically monitor
acreage, interspersion of habitat types, plant height, stem density, plant health, percent
cover by major species types, presence of associated fauna, basic water quality
parameters, and slope of the profile.

NCCF monitored these wetland parameters at 8 transects along the shoreline in April
2005 and again, post-construction, in October 2006.

This annual report is required as part of the conditions set for the permitting ofDWQ
Project #050589. Copies are being sent to both the Central Office and to the Wilmington
Regional Office, as specified.

Report submitted on 12/28/06 by Meg Rawls, shoreline project director at Carteret
Community College.