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MVN-2019-01196-WPP

Published Sept. 7, 2020
Expiration date: 9/28/2020

NAME OF APPLICANT:  City of Lake Charles, c/o: Manchac Consulting Group, Inc., 730 West Sallier Street, Lake Charles, Louisiana 70601.

LOCATION OF WORK:  The project is centered at Longitude 30.144860, Latitude -93.190353, located near the Red Davis McCollister and Southpark Road Intersection, near the City of Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, as shown within the attached drawings.

CHARACTER OF WORK:  The proposed construction of the Southeast Water Treatment Plant for the City of Lake Charles.  Construction of a new 6.0 MGD groundwater treatment facility with provisions for future expansion of 10.0 MGD. The initial plant construction will include the installation of four (4) groundwater production wells, four (4) horizontal pressure filters, two (2) concrete finished water storage tanks, and four (4) high service pumps as well as ancillary system components including chemical feed systems, automated plant controls, backup generator, lag/testing facilities, backwash pumping, recovery, and clarification equipment, and numerous onsite buildings. In addition, the Water Division will install approximately 37,500 linear feet of transmission mains to distribute water from the proposed facility, into the City’s distribution system. Fill operations will include the deposition of approximately 3,400 cy of limestone, 1,500 cy of concrete, and 14,400 cy of fill material. The proposed project would impact 12.85 acres of jurisdictional wetlands due to construction activities, therefore the applicant proposes to acquire in-kind credits from an approved mitigation bank to offset any unavoidable losses to wetland functions caused by project implementation, should a DA permit be issued.