NAME OF APPLICANT: Interstate Explorations, LLC, c/o C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates, L.L.C., Attn: Chad Soileau, 5005 Riverway Dr., Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77056
LOCATION OF WORK: Near Bayou Sorrel, Section 25, 98, 99, and 100, T10S-R10E, approximately 1.8 miles southwest of Bayou Sorrel, Louisiana, in Iberville Parish, within the Atchafalaya Basin in hydrologic unit (HUC 08080101), as shown on the attached drawings.
CHARACTER OF WORK: The applicant has requested Department of the Army authorization to clear, excavate, directionally bore, jet, and deposit fill for the installation of two production barges, a meter platform, rock pad, two 4” flowlines, and four 3” flowlines to produce the Five Star No.1 Well. Approximately 254 cubic yards of native material, will be excavated and re-deposited and approximately 2,853 cubic yards of rock will be deposited to complete the project.
A preliminary analysis has determined that the proposed project would temporarily impact approximately 0.22 acre of herbaceous emergent wetlands, permanently convert 0.13 acre of forested wetlands to herbaceous emergent wetlands and temporarily impacts approximately 0.15 acre of “other waters of the US”.
The applicant stated that they have designed the project to avoid and minimize direct and secondary adverse impacts to the maximum extent practicable. Any further reduction would limit safe installation of the infrastructure for this project and, therefore deem the project impracticable. As compensation for unavoidable wetland impacts, the applicant proposes to mitigate in-kind wetland credits from a Corps approved mitigation bank located in the watershed.