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MVN-2018-01351-CQ

Published Feb. 4, 2019
Expiration date: 2/23/2019

NAME OF APPLICANT:  University Villas Development, LLC, c/o Hydrik Wetlands Consultants, Attn: Michael Henry, 2323 LA Highway 190 East, Suite 2, Hammond, Louisiana 70401.

LOCATION OF WORK:  Located on an approximate 8.89-acre site, in Section 61, Township 17 South, Range 2 East, along and north of Tiger Bend Road, approximately 0.55 mile east of its intersection with Jones Creek Road, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, located in East Baton Rouge Parish, as shown on the enclosed drawings (Latitude 30.39203 N Longitude -91.00867 W).  This project is located in the Pontchartrain Basin (Amite River HUC 08070202).

CHARACTER OF WORK:  The applicant is requesting a Department of the Army permit authorization to clear, grade, excavate, place and maintain fill material for the construction of an approximate 54-lot residential subdivision (Tiger Pointe), near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, within East Baton Rouge Parish.  The proposed development would include residential homesites, 2 detention ponds, utility and drainage infrastructure and appurtenances, green space areas, and ingress/egress.   Approximately 15,000 cubic yards of clean fill material (including 8,645 cubic yards of material excavated onsite for the retention ponds) would be placed as fill in jurisdictional areas during project construction.  Approximately 0.865 acre of jurisdictional forested wetlands would be directly impacted as a result of project implementation.  Approximately 0.03 acre of jurisdictional Other Waters of the United States (OWOUS) would be directly impacted as a result of project implementation.  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 to utilize best management practices during and after the construction phase of the project.  The applicant is proposing to compensate for the unavoidable impact by purchasing mitigation credits from an approved mitigation bank.