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Goose Creek Basin Informational Meeting

Goose Creek Basin Informational Meeting. Welcome. Introductions Purpose Facts. Three State Procedures. Stormwater Permit Process Site-Specific Management Plan for Protection of the Endangered Species Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Inter-Basin Transfer (IBT) Permit.

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Goose Creek Basin Informational Meeting

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  1. Goose Creek BasinInformational Meeting

  2. Welcome • Introductions • Purpose • Facts

  3. Three State Procedures • Stormwater Permit Process • Site-Specific Management Plan for Protection of the Endangered Species • Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Inter-Basin Transfer (IBT) Permit

  4. Overview of Phase II Stormwater Permit Process • State issued permit • Permit requires Mint Hill to adopt a “post-construction ordinance” by July 1, 2007 • Permit requires stormwater plans to incorporate any site specific management plans • Environmental group contested the permit • ALJ and EMC Committee concluded… • The permit was inadequate to protect the Carolina Heelsplitter Mussel, and • Should provide for more extensive buffers while the Site-Specific Management Plan is prepared • State will have to issue a new Stormwater Permit

  5. Overview of Site Specific Management Plan Process • Discussion has been “off-line” for several years • Formal process is just beginning • Expect a draft of the new rule with possible 50’ buffers from state staff in spring 2007 • Public notice & public hearing period • Opportunity for Town and citizens to be heard and influence the process and results.

  6. Overview of the Inter-Basin Transfer (IBT) Process

  7. Next steps for the Town • Review the revised Stormwater Permit, provide comments to the state and consider whether any legal action is appropriate, • Adopt a post-construction ordinance consistent with the revised Stormwater Permit by June 30, 2007, • Get involved in the upcoming Site-Specific Management Plan (a/k/a Heelsplitter Protection Plan) public input process, • Monitor the status of the IBT permit

  8. POST CONSTRUCTION ORDINANCE • Rusty Rozzelle • Purpose • Process • Implementation

  9. Site Specific Management Planfor the Carolina Heelsplitter Mussel • Bradley Bennett • Purpose • Process • Implementation

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