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Wake, Orange, Johnston, or Durham counties have vegetated buffer rules protecting existing 50' buffers along rivers, creeks, and streams. The rules help prevent nutrient and sediment runoff from feeding into the Neuse River.
That argument has no merit in this area. However, removing underbrush in the buffer would certainly reduce the amount of vegetation that would serve to trap sediment and to take up nitrogen flowing into the buffer before it reaches the water. A walking path through the vegetation would also serve as a conduit for pollution to flow directly into the creek.The risk to the Neuse River from these things is much greater than the red herring risk of wild fires (are fires a real problem in Middle Creek Township? ). Either way, such an excuse would not preclude you from getting fined for impacting a buffer. There are limited activities allowed in buffers. You need to talk to your town planning department to determine if what you want to do is allowable, not allowable, or allowable with mitigation. This has nothing at all to do with your HOA.
Again, if you really are "green" you would leave the buffer alone and let Smokey the bear worry about forest fires.
Last edited by North_Raleigh_Guy; 07-10-2009 at 05:27 AM..
Hmmm, I'd assumed you were talking about your own property. If you're talking about a common area, I wouldn't touch it until you talk to the HOA. It's not yours to clear.
Okay, so from what I'm reading is that if I find some property (we're looking) that has a creek or stream running through it, I cannot do anything within the buffer to that creek edge? Of course, what you're saying makes perfect sense and I hadn't considered it before (never having lived in a wooded area near water), but I always thought it'd be neat to have a path down to it with a little place to sit and enjoy the water.
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Okay, so from what I'm reading is that if I find some property (we're looking) that has a creek or stream running through it, I cannot do anything within the buffer to that creek edge? Of course, what you're saying makes perfect sense and I hadn't considered it before (never having lived in a wooded area near water), but I always thought it'd be neat to have a path down to it with a little place to sit and enjoy the water.
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