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MVN-2013-02198-MR

Published May 20, 2019
Expiration date: 6/19/2019

NAME OF APPLICANT: Peace River Mitigation, LLC; Care of: Matrix New World Engineering, Land Surveying, and Landscape Architecture, P.C.; Attention: Lee Womack; 2798 O’Neal Lane, Building F; Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816

LOCATION OF WORK:  The 883.4-acre site is located approximately 5.5 miles north of Vinton, Louisiana, in Calcasieu Parish as shown on attached drawings (Latitude: 30.282118° N, Longitude:–93.594902° W).  The Project is located within the Calcasieu-Mermentau River Basin, Hydrologic Units 08080205 and 08080206.

CHARACTER OF WORK:   Remnant agricultural levees will be removed and resultant material will be used to fill associated artificial drainage features.  Elevated earthen beds associated with an existing slash pine plantation will be removed with a bedding rack or commercial disk to restore natural contours.  Appropriately 657.5 acres of the site will be planted with longleaf pine seedlings, and 130.7 acres will be planted with an appropriate assemblage of bottomland hardwood species.  All work is being done for the purpose of constructing a mitigation bank.