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AMENDMENT Coddle Creek Reservoir December 15, 1993 Page 2 Add the following as details for paragraphs 1.6.3.1 - Monitoring through 1.6.3.2 - Maintenance under SECTION I - BASIC SERVICES: 1.6.3.1 Monitoring. In accordance with the 404 permit, the monitoring program will require the specific evaluation through statistically accurate methodology, of the following: survivorship and growth of bottomland hardwoods and upland conifers~ and hardwoods installed in over 70 mitigation areas by North Carolina State University, Forestry Department (NCSU) - mitigation planting contractor; recruitment2 in the mitigation areas of native vegetation; baseline and successional3 data for wildlife and vegetation in preservation areas; recruitment of mosquito-eating fishes4 into the reservoir pool; this will include assessment of adult mosquito population data which. may be available from the local Mosquito Control District. Monitoring of the above parameters will be required at the beginning, middle and end of each growing season for the first 4 years, and at the beginning and end of each growing season for years 5 through 7. This results in a total of 18 monitoring events. In addition, the 404 permit requires a baseline evaluation of the preservation areas. Quantitative monitoring will be done in 20 of the planting areas using standard ecological assessment techniques. The remaining planting areas will be qualitatively assessed for survivorship, percent area coverage of recruited vegetation (including nuisance species), and depredations, vandalism or other problems. I i.e. pines, cedars, etc. 2 natural movement, through emigration, immigration or reproductive means, of organisms to a new area 3 Changes in plant and animal communities over time 4 i.e. Gambus/a, Fundulus, Notropis, etc. 5 vegetation damage and/or mortality from animal feeding