Plans and Studies of Bolin Creek
Majority of studies commissioned by the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill and NC DENR
2003 Assessment Report: Biological Impairment in the Little Creek Watershed, DENR, Division of Water Quality. EPA determined parts of Bolin Creek as impaired; the Town of Carrboro signed an MOA with the NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program on May 12, 2002 to conduct this study. A key finding of this baseline study established the 405+acre forest along one section of Bolin Creek as an area of special significance, worthy of preservation.
2004 The North Carolina Natural Heritage Program released a report that included the Bolin Creek natural area. https://www.townofcarrboro.org/DocumentCenter/View/563/Inventory-of-Natural-Areas-and-Wildlife-Habitats-for-Orange-County-PDF.
2004 Morgan-Little Creek LWP Targeting of Management Report
2004 Future of Upper Bolin Creek Corridor
2004 Morgan and Bolin Creek Local Watershed Plan
2007 Bolin Creek Watershed: Geomorphic Analysis, Earthtech
Earth Tech provided services to the Town of Carrboro during the spring and summer of 2007 to evaluate the stability of the entire Bolin Creek Watershed. This project was performed as the first step of the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill as partners in the Bolin Creek Watershed Restoration Team (BCWRT) to r ehabilitate the watershed and to one day have its biological integrity improve and to the extent that Bolin Creek can be removed from the Federal (303d) list of impaired streams.
2009 Carolina North Development Agreement
This Town of Chapel Hill page contains most all relevant information. See particularly the Modifications request granted in 2013 describing the locations of the conservations areas. Final Development Agreement was based on this excellent Biohabitats, Inc. Study.
https://www.biohabitats.com/project/carolina-north-land-stewardship-policy/
https://facilities.unc.edu/wp content/uploads/sites/256/2015/12/1FINAL_ConsAreaDesc_REV072911.pdf
2009 Bolin Creek Greenway Conceptual Master Plan: Chapter 1,
Commissioned by Town of Carrboro
2009 Bolin Creek Greenway Conceptual Master Plan: Chapter 5,
Commissioned by Town of Carrboro
2010 Baldwin Park Stream Restoration
2010 Catena Bolin Creek Greenway Conceptual Plan Review This report report why the Bolin Creek Greenway Master Plan did not meet its number one objective, “to improve water quality”.
2011 Tanyard Branch Study Full report
Excerpt: Tanyard Branch alternatives analysis
Excerpt: Tanyard Branch appendix
2012 Bolin Creek Situation Assessment (WECO 2012): This study was initiated by NC DENR and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Professional facilitators interviewed up to a 100 participants. The Executive Summary is over 40 pages, most of it transcripts of interviews with participants. The BCWRT subcontracted part of a current EPA grant to Watershed Education for Communities and Officials (WECO), a NC Cooperative Extension program, to conduct a situation assessment in the Bolin Creek watershed. The purpose was to better understand the interests of watershed stakeholders and organizations, to identify opportunities to engage stakeholders in Bolin Creek restoration while meeting multiple interests, and to determine how stakeholders would like to participate in restoration efforts.
Key recommendations of WECO Assessment:
- Create a multi organizational collaborative watershed initiative
- Examine how to more holistically plan and manage water resources
- Increase community outreach and engagement on the Carolina North Forest Stewardship Plan
- Investigate how to raise fund for water quality protection through a stormwater utility or other mean
- Convene a facilitated search for bike per routes while protecting Bolin Creek’s riparian corridor
2012 Bolin Creek Restoration PlanPlan written by Chapel Hill and Carrboro staff with an EPA grant.
2012 Bolin Creek Watershed Situation Assessment
2012 Dry Gulch Stream Restoration – Town of Carrboro
2012 McDougle Middle School Bioretention Area and Cistern Installation – Town of Carrboro
2012 Monitoring Runoff from Pacifica: a Low Impact Development Subdivision
2012 Bolin Creek Restoration Plan, Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro
2012 Urban Stream Restoration Case Studies
2013 Bolin Creek listed on the EPA’s 303(d) list of impaired streams. The Town of Carrboro and Chapel Hill have received two Section 319 grants from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a Bolin Creek Watershed Restoration Plan. These Section 319 grants come through the North Carolina State Division of Water Quality to fund community water quality projects.
2015 Aaedan Report, funded by the U.S. Forest Service that looked at the neighborhoods of Bolin Forest and Quarterpath Trace and reported on what is needed for stewardship of this urban forest. The Aedan report, in particularly, notes on page 15 as a threat to this urban forest: “Activities such as construction of new trails or impervious surfaces have the potential to cause significant erosion and sediment run-off especially around highly erosion-prone soils with localized areas of steep slope and shallow soils located along Bolin Creek.” As a result, this study recommends to maintain water quality to “Minimize footpaths within stream corridors.”
- https://www.townofcarrboro.org/1028/Neighborhood-Urban-Forest-Stewardship
- http://www.townofcarrboro.org/DocumentCenter/View/2894/Urban-Forest-Stewardship-Report