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MVN-2015-01600-MB

Published Nov. 18, 2019
Expiration date: 12/18/2019

NAME OF APPLICANT:  Michael & Cheryl Torres, c/o Trinity Mitigation Services, LLC, Attn: Chris Trepagnier, 331 Girod Street, Mandeville, Louisiana, 70448.

LOCATION OF WORK:  The site is located in Sections 7, 8, 75 and 95, T11S, R7E, westerly of  LaPlace, Louisiana in St. John the Baptist Parish, as shown on enclosed drawings (Latitude: 30.0785 N, Longitude: -90.51764 W).  The Project is located in U.S.G.S. HUC 08070204 in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.

CHARACTER OF WORK:  The project was previously advertised by public notice on October 16, 2017.  This public notice incorporates additional acreage not previously included. The proposed bank property totals approximately 226.8 acres of agricultural fields (cattle grazing and hay production), open water (municipal canal, agricultural ditches, and pond), and existing forest.  The applicant/sponsor proposes the re-establishment of 82.1 acres and rehabilitation of 10.9 acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands and preservation of 131.0 acres of existing forested wetlands.  Aspects of the proposed restoration plan include backfilling agricultural field ditches and grading an existing road to restore surface hydrology, construction of a berm along an existing municipal canal to promote sheetflow, and planting appropriate vegetation.  Specific details of the proposed restoration plan can be found in the attached prospectus.