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MVN-2007-01199-CX

Published Dec. 3, 2018
Expiration date: 1/1/2019
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NAME OF APPLICANT:  L.J. Noel, Inc., c/o Lord and Winter, LLC, Attn: Sarah Wood, 9800 Airline Highway, Suite 207, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816

LOCATION OF WORK:  Within the Mississippi River Basin, in the Lower Mississippi River – Baton Rouge hydrologic unit (HUC 08070100), in the Mississippi River, right descending bank, mile 184.5, near Modeste, Louisiana, in Ascension Parish (Latitude 30.1866 N, Longitude -91.0227 W).

CHARACTER OF WORK:  The applicant has requested an extension of time to complete previously authorized work and to modify an existing Department of the Army permit authorization.  The proposed permit modification includes the installation and maintenance of a conveyor bridge, 6 dolphin moorings, 14 deadman anchors, and barge fleeting.  The proposed conveyor bridge would be utilized to transport sand material to barges from the existing and previously authorized sand containment pits.  The dolphin moorings would be utilized for barges during loading.  The proposed anchors would be utilized to support a 14 barge long x 8 barge wide fleeting arrangement (112 total barges).  Jurisdictional batture wetlands would be impacted from the proposed modification from construction of the conveyor bridge and support footings, as well as the temporary 15-wide construction access clearing for the installation of the anchor point installation along the batture.  The original permit authorization included the dredging of sand material from the Mississippi River and the placement of dredged material into batture containment pits (2 of 4 pits have been completed).  Approximately 2,000,000 cubic yards of sand material annually would be hydraulically dredged from the river bottom and would be placed in the batture pit for stockpiling.  Approximately 0.12 acre of jurisdictional batture wetlands would be impacted by permit modification and 2.06 acres of jurisdictional batture wetlands would be cleared for access road and anchor point installation.  The 4 previously authorized batture containment pits have been previously mitigated under the original permit authorization.

The applicant stated that the impacted area has been minimized to the smallest footprint that will allow the goals of the project to be achieved.  Best management practices will be employed during construction to minimize sediment excursion.  To compensate for unavoidable impacts, the applicant has agreed to purchase mitigation credits from an approved mitigation bank for all proposed modifications impacting jurisdictional wetlands.


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