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MVN-2013-1393-EOO

Published June 28, 2013
Expiration date: 7/20/2013

NAME OF APPLICANT:  Woodlands Borrow Pit, LLC, ℅ Paul Hogan, Post Office Box 250, Des Allemands, Louisiana, 70030.

 

LOCATION OF WORK:  A 940 acre site on the west side of Louisiana Highway 23 and across from the Town of Ironton, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, as shown on the enclosed drawings.

 

Latitude: 29.63838/Longitude: -89.96415; Hydrologic Unit Code: 08090301 – East Central Louisiana Coastal

 

CHARACTER OF WORK:  To excavate up to 45,000,000 cubic yards of borrow material from two locations, one 464 acres and the other 281 acres, for a commercial borrow pit operation.  Earthen material would be processed, stockpiled, and hauled off site via an existing access road that extends throughout the property.  Mining of the material would take place 150 feet within the property boundary and excavated to a depth up      to EL. -30 (NAVD88).  The applicant has proposed a 100 foot buffer around jurisdictional wetlands in an effort to avoid direct wetland impacts on-site.  The work, as currently proposed, would impact 1.1 acres of Waters of the United States.  No compensatory mitigation measures have been proposed at this time.