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MVN-2013-01011-CJ

Published June 10, 2013
Expiration date: 6/29/2013

NAME OF APPLICANTCity of Zachary, Louisiana, c/o Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, 5551 Corporate Boulevard, Suite 200, Baton Rouge, Louisiana  70808. 

 

LOCATION OF WORK:  Located off Louisiana Highway 64 in Zachary Louisiana, central to a point that is at Latitude 30.65245 and Longitude -91.14193 within the Lake Pontchartrain-Tangipahoa River Basin (HUC 08070205) in Sections 31, 32, Township 4S-Range1E, East Baton Rouge Parish. 

 

CHARACTER OF WORK:    The City of Zachary proposes to construct and maintain a new roadway from Louisiana Highway 64 (LA-64) to Louisiana Highway 19 (LA-19).  The proposed roadway will be a four-lane, urban, arterial roadway with two connections to LA-64 and one to LA-19 requiring approximately 7,342 cubic yards of fill, impacting approximately 1.45 acres of wetlands and  no impact to Other Waters of the U.S. subject to Corps of Engineers jurisdiction. 

   

The applicant has designed the project to avoid and minimize direct and secondary adverse impacts to the maximum extent practicable.  The road has been designed to avoid 5.72 acres of wetlands and 1,049.9 linear feet of Other Waters of the U.S.  As compensation for unavoidable wetland impacts, the applicant proposes to use a Corps approved mitigation bank within the watershed of impact.  

 

The applicant proposes to avoid secondary impacts (to wetlands) by allowing the current ditch flow into the wetlands to remain at its current direction.