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MVN-2014-02026-CE

Published Dec. 3, 2018
Expiration date: 12/22/2018

NAME OF APPLICANT:  Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, P.O. Box 44027, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804.

LOCATION OF WORK:  In back marsh along the Caminada headlands (Latitude: 29.127317, Longitude: -90.154439) near Port Fourchon in Lafourche Parish, within the East Central Louisiana Coastal basin in hydrological unit (HUC 08090301), as shown on the attached drawings.

CHARACTER OF WORK: The applicant has requested a Department of the Army permit for the restoration of the Caminada Headlands back barrier marsh through fill placement utilizing offshore sand material located in federal waters.  The project is being funded through the Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection and Restoration Act and is Phase 2 of the Caminada Headlands Back Barrier Marsh Creation Project (BA-171). The applicant has stated that the project is intended to create a platform upon which the beach and dune can migrate, reducing the likelihood of breaching, improving the longevity of the barrier shoreline, and protecting wetlands and infrastructure to the north and west.  The project has been designed to restore the geomorphic and ecologic form and function of the barrier island features at the Caminada Headlands to provide and protect marsh habitats.  The project proposes to add sand material in areas most susceptible to breaching and provide benefits through the restoration and sustaining of important coastal habitats.  Approximately 6,678,539 cubic yards of native waterbottom material would be dredged and placed as fill for a marsh platform restoration/creation activities.  Approximately 541 acres of marsh habitat are proposed to be created as a result of the fill placement.  Approximately 378 acres of waterbottoms would be impacted through dredging activities at the borrow sites.  Created marsh platform habitat are proposed to be replanted with appropriate native ecospecies.  The applicant has claimed that the project has been designed to avoid and minimize direct and secondary adverse wetland impacts to the maximum extent practicable.  The applicant is proposing that the project derived benefits and habitat creation would outweigh any detrimental impacts to wetland areas as a result of project implementation.  Compensatory mitigation requirements are not anticipated.