The Town of Chapel Hill can require an erosion and sediment control bond as a condition of a land-disturbing permit — financial assurance that you install and maintain erosion control and stabilize the site. The town sets the amount; we issue it at a flat 3% with one soft credit pull.
















Enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file with the town. Here is the whole thing:
Your business details, the bond amount the town required, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The soft pull never affects your credit score.
Submit the executed bond to the town with your land-disturbing permit. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the town insists.
Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure on your Chapel Hill permit and the premium updates.
North Carolina's Sedimentation Pollution Control Act lets local governments run their own erosion and sedimentation control programs, and the Town of Chapel Hill administers a well-established one. As a condition of a land-disturbing permit, the town can require a surety bond as financial assurance for the approved erosion and sediment control plan.
The bond runs to the Town of Chapel Hill as obligee. It guarantees you will install the erosion control measures on your approved plan, maintain them through construction, and stabilize the disturbed area — protecting Chapel Hill's creeks and downstream waters if you don't.
It is a guarantee, not insurance for you: if the town draws on the bond because the work wasn't done, you repay the surety. Once the site is stabilized and the town signs off, the obligation is released.
Submit the application with the bond amount the Town of Chapel Hill set — the executed bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum, soft pull only. Enter the amount the town required and file the same week.