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MVN-2004-0957-1-EBB

Published July 29, 2019
Expiration date: 8/18/2019

NAME OF APPLICANT:  Daybrook Fisheries, Inc. c/o ELOS Environmental Resources Management, Attention:  Arianna Lee at 3838 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 3000, Metairie, Louisiana  70002.

LOCATION OF WORK:  On Empire Canal, at 136 Daybrook Road, Empire, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, as shown on the attached drawings.

Hydrologic Unit Code:  08090301;  East – Central Louisiana Coastal

Latitude:  29.380833, Longitude: -89.594444

            The work described below was completed prior to obtaining a Department of the Army permit and was in violation of Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 301 of the Clean Water Act.  All legal issues concerning the unauthorized work have been deferred.

CHARACTER OF WORK:  To excavate and install and maintain fill to construct new bulkheads and docks, a drainage ditch culvert, a conveyor belt, restore marsh, and perform maintenance dredging, all to serve an existing commercial development.  Project implementation will require permanent impacts to 0.67 acres of other waters of the US for the drainage canal and approximately one acre of non-vegetated waterbottoms for bulkheads and backfill, as well as temporary impacts to 0.41 acres of non-vegetated waterbottoms for maintenance dredging.  Dredged material will be disposed of in non-wetland areas on site.  No impacts to special aquatic sites are required for project implementation; no compensatory mitigation is anticipated at this time.

            The applicant may be required to fully or partially restore the project site to pre-project conditions, if issuance of a permit is determined not to be in the overall public interest.