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MVN-1998-03448-CM

CEMVN-RGC
Published Jan. 30, 2023
Expiration date: 2/28/2023
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NAME OF APPLICANT:  South Louisiana Fill Materials LLC, c/o Linfield, Hunter & Junius, Inc, 3608 18th Street, Suite 200, Metairie, Louisiana 70002. 

LOCATION OF WORK:  In the Mississippi River and batture at mile point 152.6 RDB above head of passes on St. Joe Plantation Road (30.008308, -90.770939) in Vacherie, Louisiana, in St. James Parish, within the Lower Mississippi-Baton Rouge River Basin in hydrologic unit (HUC 08070100), as shown on the attached drawings.                                                                                            

CHARACTER OF WORK:  The applicant has requested Department of the Army authorization to extend time and modify an existing expired permit which included utilizing a suction dredge to dredge the Mississippi River for sand to be stockpiled in a batture pit located adjacent to the dredge area.  The sand would then be moved offsite by truck utilizing St. Joe Plantation Road which crosses the Mississippi River Levee.  The modification to the original expired permit includes clearing and excavating of an old borrow pit within the batture that has now reverted back to wetlands and will be utilized as a limestone storage area.  The limestone would be brought in on barges then unloaded  into the cleared pit area and trucked out to be sold for construction projects via St. Joe Plantation Road.  Approximately 150,000 cubic yards of sand will be dredged and deposited into the existing pit and approximately 575,000 cubic yards of sand material will be excavated and hauled offsite.  Approximately 65 acres of Mississippi River water bottoms and river batture pit will be temporarily impacted.  Approximately 275,000 cubic yards limes stone will be placed in the proposed limestone storage area and removal for sale as needed.  Approximately 13 acres of forested jurisdictional batture wetlands will be permanently impacted. 

A Preliminary analysis has determined that the proposed project would directly impact 13 acres of wetlands.  

MITIGATION:  The applicant has not provided any information related to compensation for wetland impacts associated with this project.  The applicant would be expected provide mitigation at a Corps approved mitigation bank within the watershed of impact and of the same habitat type.


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