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Attachment Four <br />15 pages <br />HAL OWEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. <br />Sail & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS <br />F.Q. Box 440, 266 Old Coats Road <br />Li1l4ton, NC 27546 -0400 <br />Phone (910) 893 - 8731 Fax (910) 893 -3534 <br />-E -mail: serv1'ce@ha1owensox1.com <br />7 April 2009 <br />' orange County solid Waste Management Department <br />i <br />/o fir. Ernest Parker <br />Olver, Inc* <br />1135 Kildare �nn Road <br />Cary, NC 27511 <br />Reference} Wetland and En &nered Species Investigations <br />a <br />Site 056 �" Approximately 1 Acres <br />Orange County, North Carolina. <br />a <br />Dear Mr. Parker, <br />Hal Oren and Associates,- Inc. has conducted an investigation for the subject property, <br />which is locate on the northern side of Hwy 54, M" the V.t r6ss U G topb apW map <br />quadrangle of orange duty, North arolmna,. The pi"ose of Ns Mvestlatlon was to <br />determffie the existence and extent of areas that are regulated under Section 404 of the Clean <br />Wat6r *Act dnd to present our findings on -a hand drawn .map repr spnfing th6 appro ate <br />location and extent of each wetland area observed. 'he moose of th m' yesf atlon was also to <br />idenffy areas that contain the habitat needed to support known endangered or threatened plant or <br />animal species <br />All wetland deteminations and delineations were ma M aeeordanee with tho 1987 Us <br />... Anny corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual.. All steam determinations were made <br />accordance wiffi the NC Division. of Water Quality "Identification Methods for the Origins of <br />Intermittent and Perennial Strems Version }1 ?'' 114s report r4resents nay' professional ��inion <br />as a Licensed Soil seientltt . but hoes not represent on ur�reuee y the U Army Corps of <br />Engineers or the NC Division of Water uallty* <br />Wetland Investi adon <br />Witte the approximately 25 acre. area designated for constmetion of the transfer station, <br />we identified two streams and three wedand areas (see attached map). Areas that met the criteria <br />o j u6sdictional wetlands were dehneated by hanging consecutively numbered flagmg along the <br />wetland boundary to be survey located. It aearg that the two stremns have been previously <br />identified in the - field nth blue flagging. Wblk at the site .vie collected supporting wetland <br />deternination data required by the US Army Corps of Engineers in order to conduct a <br />Jurisdictional I etemiination. We completed two sets of wetland detennination, forms and three <br />strewn detenmination forms and took photographs. <br />Soil Scie e bivesti ation + Wetland Defineadons, Pennitt'i g, and Consulting <br />