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Shaw and label all required easements on the plans, including
access easements to proposed facilities. Easements will be
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See exhibit 2, final easement locations and sizes to be coordinated
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dedicated to public use and should include all the measures used
with owner
for DEQampliance.
A plat and deed of dedication for the stmmwacer facility
easements will need to be recorded priorta approval afthe
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(Rev.1) Comment not addressed. Response noted.
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VSMP and site plans.
DEQ water quality and water quantity requirements will need to
be met Include all calculations regarding these requirements
(runoff talks, VRRM spreadsheet, BMP calks, etc.). The existing
site candidion for this project area should be forested andthe
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Noted, please we SW Nate sheets, HIM report, and VRRM Results
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posts and
beams along with roads and buildings should be included in the
impervious. [WAC25-87665,66]
Show the dry, swales and any additional measures at a larger
Dry Swales removed in favor of Extended detention basins, all
scale. Any concentrated flaw from the measures that cutlet into
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basins meet l year 24 hour starm energy balance requirements. See
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natural channel will need to meet energy balance.
SW-102 for results
Will grading be required for the panels or mats? If so, it will need
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Road grading has been added on plans far visibility reasons.
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to be shown an the plans.
Provide additional information on the mitigation plan, including
areas of mitigation and the species and quantity of plants. Any
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required
red information has been added
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areas of plantings outside afthe buffer fie -Albemarle GIS) will
need to be in an easement (link to additional materials in email).
The dry swales are still difficult to see. Consider using different
line types and weights for the existing and proposed contours.
Include the drainage areas to the dry swales, the maximum is 5
res. They are also concentrating the Flow and will need to be
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(Rev. 2) Swales are no longer shown.
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released
into an adequate channel. Energy Balance will also he required
far concentrated Flows entering a natural channel. (DEQ IMP
Ditches created by the road grading will also need to he designed
and meet the DEQ recommends. (Rev. 2) Comment not
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Road grading has been added on plans far visibility reasons.
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addressed. The road grading is no longer shown on the plans.
The disturbed area in the VRRM appears to be larger than what is
actually disturbed. Also, undisturbed areas (especially in the
buffer) an he used as Forest & Open Space for additional credits
(Forest It Open Space will need to he platted, please contact me
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VRRMspreadsheetrawltsprovided
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additional information if this might be something you want to
pursue). (Rev. 2) The VRRM and methods to meeting DEQ quality
I am awaiting a response regarding how to handle the easements
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(Rev. 2) The easements will he assessed with the plat submittal.
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and will let you know when that is finalized.
Pipes will need to be buried to avoid maintenance and erosion
issue. All outlets will need to be into flannel and Energy
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Channels pravided in place ofaverland pipes
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Balance will need to be met.
The tables on SW-102 will need to include the
Qallowed/Qdeveloped From the Energy Balance equation and the
Qactual/Qpost from the storm muting. Include the muting
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Please see SW-103 far updated tables
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calculations with the submittal. The Q10 pre and post will also
need to be shown to verify DEQ flood protection.
Include the arlfce inverts on the profile views of the basins. Also
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This has been added
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show the tap of berm.
Diversion Dikes cannot be used as a permanent measure due to
their limited life and maintenance requirements. These should be
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See SW-208 for ditch design/detail
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replaced with ditches and should include the design calculations
far the ditches.
Some of the drainage areas appearta he incorrect and should be
verified. An example is on sheet ESC-208 neartap 11 where the
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Drainage areas have been updated
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line is parallel to a centaur.
The conservation area shown on the plans that is being used in
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This has been updated an the plans
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the VRRM should he labelled as'SWM Forest and Open Space'.
Show all the proposed grading an the plans. There appears to be
cantaurs shown on the mars that do not tie iota the existing
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Updated mad contours to include daylight lines
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cantaurs. label the max slopes of the roads.
Use the US Fish and Wildlife link in the email to determine if this
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This is not located in the critical habitat fare species.
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project is in a critical habitat for endangered species.
Use details from the Virginia Erasion and Sediment Control
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(Rev. 1)Comment
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Handbook.
partially addressed, see comment 4 below.
Perimeter matrals will be needed around all areas of land
disturbance, including tree removal. (Rev. 1) Comment not
addressed. All cantral measures should be from the
Virginia Erosion and Sediment Cantral Handbook (VESCH). H is
unclear what a sediment swale is and it does not appear to he in
the VESCH. There is also no measures shown far
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Removed diversions nut leading to a channel
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the stream crassings and silt fence cannot be used for storage.
(Rev.2) Comment partially addressed. Some of the diversians do
not appear to lead to a channel (sudr as on sheet ESC-203). Al
diversions will need to lead to a stabilized outlet or other
are (VESCH 3.09). See also comment 5 below.
far silt fence, the maximum drainage area is no more than one
quarter acre per 100 feet of silt fence and the maximum slope
length behind the harder is 100 feet. Consider diversion dikes to
sediment traps or basins for the measures.(VESCH 3.05](Rev. 1)
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Re -added the sih fence detail as well as utilized it in specifc
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See previous comment (Rev. 2) Comment partially addressed. It
locations
appears the silt fence was removed though it would still b , a
good option in many areas. Per comment 1 above, it may be
required by the inspector.
One is the compliance with the VRRM. Everything has been put
into the Sheet flow to Conservatian Area, however (as discussed
in earlier meanings) the site is not conducive to this due to the
slopes and there are also no level spreaders shown an the plan as
required by the DEC, specifications for that measure. The basins
that are designed to the Extended Detentian Basin Specification
The VRRM
hspreadsheet has been updated. There are 3.251hs./yr. of
VRRMad
(DEQ IMP Spec No.15, line Be an the VRRM, I don't believe any
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Tl union required.
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are designed to the line So spec) can be used and entered into
the spreadsheet and the grass channels (line 4 on the VRRM) that
meet DEQ IMP Spe, No. 3 an also he used for compliance.
Please be sure to read the DEQ BMP specifications to ensure that
what is shown an the plans and used in the VRRM is designed to
those standards and provide a revised VRRM spreadsheet.
The 1-yr Q allowed calculation has been updated to include two
significant digits past the decimal point.
The 1-yr Rv Developed is now shown in the table an sheet SW-102.
Another is with the quantity calculations. The 1-yr Qallowed per
basin column on SW-102 is showing whale numbers and I
The 10-yrQ pre and Q post are now included an SW-103. The Q
wouldn't expect this if Rs the number from running the energy
actual at the basin curtails is shown on SW-103.The basin outfall
balance equatian. I was unable to AeA as the RV-develaped was
channels have been repositioned to outlet at locations within
not shown in the table. Also, the Q-pre and the Q-developed in
channels where the Q10 post construction is less than or equal to
the 10 year table an SW-103 were the same numbers and that's
the Q10 pre-constructan.
not something we see as there is always some difference. As
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previously discussed, energy balance is not something that
fallouts have been added in the hydraulic calculations package to
applies to the SO -year rtann, the post just needs to be less than
indicate the storm event routing for the basin orifices and
the pre. Additionally, going through the calculations package I did
emergency spillways that camespond to the tables on SW-102 and
not see routing resuhs that mavAed to the numbers provided in
SW-103. The hydraulic calculations do not indicate the 1-yr or 10-yr
the tables on SW-102 and 103 or the water surface elevations
storms overtopping the emergency spillways. Additionally, the
inside the ponds far the design storms.
routing hydragraphs indicate appropriate drawdawn times.
Water surfaces have been added to the basin details. The water
surface elevations are typically the same elevation as the respective
curtail mifa.