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MVN-2018-00569-WS

Published June 8, 2020
Expiration date: 6/29/2020

NAME OF APPLICANT:  Calcasieu Parish School Board, c/o: Providence Engineering and Environmental Group, LLC, attn.:Taylor Simoneaux, 1201 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802.

LOCATION OF WORK: Latitude 30.253672/Longitude: -93.172970, Section 27, Township 9 South, Range 8 West, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, within Calcasieu Parish. Hydrologic Unit Code: 080802030705-Kayouche Coulee, Calcasieu Watershed. 

CHARACTER OF WORK:  The applicant proposes to construct a baseball field at the Washington-Marion Magnet High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to support the needs of the existing school. The project will encompass an approximate 6.65 acre site, and it is anticipated that the work will have permanent impacts to approximately 1.54 acres of palustrine forested wetlands and 0.08 acre of waters of the US.  Fill activities will include the deposition of approximately 2,840 cy of earthen fill in wetlands. The applicant has proposed to mitigate any unavoidable wetlands impacts at an approved and acceptable mitigation bank within the N.O. District, should a DA permit be issued.