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MVN-2017-00925-MD

Published Dec. 16, 2019

Expiration date: 1/15/2020

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NAME OF APPLICANT: Warren Plauché; Care of: Coastal Environments, Inc.; Attention: Ed Fike; 1260 Main Street; Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802.

LOCATION OF WORK: The 145.8-acre site is located approximately 0.6 miles north of Plaucheville, Louisiana, in Avoyelles Parish as shown on the attached drawings (Latitude: 30.975128° N, Longitude:–91.986064° W). The Project is located within the Bayou Teche Watershed, Hydrologic Unit 08080102.

CHARACTER OF WORK: Approximately 142 acres of the site currently consist of open fallow agricultural land that was last farmed in 2018. Soybeans have most recently been the predominant crop and vegetative cover on the proposed bank site, as well as on adjacent and nearby agricultural lands. Proposed activities include excavation and removal or abandonment of five existing culverts, plugging/backfilling existing agricultural drainage ditches, excavation of a new ditch, land grading and leveling, ripping and backfilling of trenches for planting bare-rooted seedlings, and control of invasive species. Approximately 138.7 acres of the site will be planted with bottomland hardwood seedlings, and 0.9 acres of existing bottomland hardwood forest will be preserved under the subject conservation servitude. All work is being done for the purpose of constructing a wetland mitigation bank.