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MVN-2014-02026-CE

Published July 22, 2019

Expiration date: 8/10/2019

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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 modification for the previously issued Caminada Headlands Back Barrier Marsh Creation Project (BA-171). Due to additional funding through the Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA), the proposed modification will now include additional marsh creation by incorporating the adjoining Caminada Headland Back Barrier Marsh Creation Increment 1 Project (BA-193) through fill placement utilizing offshore sand material located in federal waters. 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 nourishment of important coastal habitats. In total, approximately 6,806,312 cubic yards of native waterbottom material would be dredged and placed as fill to create a marsh platform. The proposed projects will impact approximately 542 acres of tidal marsh behind the beach front and approximately 404 acres of open waterbottoms through dredging activities at the borrow sites. However, the newly created marsh platform will be replanted with appropriate native species and is anticipated to result in approximately 1,061 acres of new marsh habitat. 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 losses as a result of project implementation and would enhance the coastal ecosystem and provide for longer sustainability. Therefore, compensatory mitigation requirements are not anticipated.