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State of North CarOlina <br /> Department of Natural Resources and Community Development <br /> Division of Environmental Management <br /> 512 North Salisbury Street ' Raleigh, North Carolina 27611 <br />James G. Martin, Governor January l?, 1989 R. Paul Wilms <br />\Villiam \V. Cobey, Jr., Secretary Director <br /> <br /> Mr. Michael L. Byrd, Planner <br /> Cabarrus County Planning Department <br /> P.O. Box 707 <br /> Concord, NC 28025 <br /> <br /> Subject: Review of the Watershed Overlay District (WSO) of the <br /> Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance adopted May 16, 1988 <br /> in conjunction with the requested reclassification of <br /> Coddle Creek and Dutch Buffalo Creek from Class WS-III <br /> to Class WS-II. <br /> <br /> Dear Mr. Byrd: <br /> <br /> We have reviewed the subject WSO in liqht of the DEM <br /> Guidelines for Obtaining a Protective Surface Water <br /> Classification and Appendices, and in particular Table 3 thereof. <br /> We recommend you eliminate reference to Coldwater Creek since, as <br /> was mentioned in Bob Holman's letter of August 7, 1986, this <br /> creek can only be classified as WS-III due to industrial <br /> discharges, and urban development has already encroached into its <br /> watershed. By copy of this letter the Mooresville Regional Office <br /> is requested to verify that there are industrial discharges into <br /> Coldwater Creek of a type inappropriate for a WS-II <br /> Classification and that there are no permitted discharges into <br /> the portions of Coddle and Dutch Buffalo Creeks proposed to be <br /> reclassified. <br /> <br /> -Lot requirement items 1. and 2. should eliminate the <br /> conditional phrase "when served by it]dividual wells and/or <br /> septic tanks" and item 3. should be eliminated. Sewer connection <br /> availability tends to provide impetus for higher density of <br /> development. This is contrary to the purpose of WSOs, which is to <br /> reduce the level of pollution-generating activities and risks of <br /> contamination of water supplies by controlling the density of <br /> development in the watershed. Development with densities greater <br /> than 6% (2 acre lots) in the critical area or 12% (1 acre lots) <br /> in the remaining watershed area could be allowed on a case-by- <br /> case basis where absolutely unavoidable and then only if the <br /> runoff resulting from the ffrst inch or one-half inch of rainfall <br /> respectively is controlled by using wet detention basins in <br /> <br /> I <br /> <br /> <br />