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MVN-2019-00138-CM

Published March 9, 2020

Expiration date: 3/28/2020

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NAME OF APPLICANT: Lafourche Parish Government, c/o T. Baker Smith, LLC, Attn: Michael Trahan, P.O. Box 2266, Houma, Louisiana 70361.

LOCATION OF WORK: Within a drainage ditch located on the east side of Bayou Lafourche from E. 44^th St. proceeding south about 4.5 miles to E. 94^th St. including 4 east west connecting drainages at E. 53^rd St., E. 59^th St., an unnamed road between E. 60^th and E. 62^ndstreets, and E. 71^st St., in Cut Off, Louisiana within the Barataria Basin in hydrologic unit (HUC 08090301), as shown on the attached drawings.

CHARACTER OF WORK: The applicant has requested Department of the Army authorization to excavate and deposit fill on adjacent ditch banks for maintenance, re-grading, and re-shaping of approximately 9 miles of existing maintained drainages to improve flow and drainage of the area. Approximately 160,485 cubic yards of excavated material will be deposited on approximately 29.6 acres of ditch high bank.

A Preliminary analysis has determined that the proposed project would directly impact approximately 31.45 acres of jurisdictional other waters of the U.S, with permanent impacts to approximately 0.10 acre of jurisdictional emergent herbaceous wetlands and 1.72 acres of jurisdictional forested wetlands.

The applicant stated that they have designed the project to avoid and minimize direct and secondary adverse impacts to the maximum extent practicable. Any further reduction would limit the ability to improve drainage and, therefore deem the project impracticable. The applicant has proposed to purchase credits at a mitigation bank within the watershed of impacts and of the same habitat type.