The United States Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) (“Corps.”) issued an August 14th public notice (“Notice”) regarding a Section 404 Clean Water Act application by the Five Forks Hunting Club, LLC (“FF”).
The application requests authorization for the placement of dredged and fill material into waters of the United States associated with the construction of two waters control levees with an accompanying water control structure.
The Notice states that the proposed work encompasses an approximately 2- acre area and would involve impacts (deposition of fill material) to approximately 0.52 acres of jurisdictional wetlands.
The vegetation in the area is stated to typically include:
… various ash, elm, and oak species typical of a bottomland hardwood environment including but not limited to, green ash, winged elm, white oak, willow oak, and water oak.
The water control levees are stated to total approximately 1,889 linear feet. The purposes include:
- Basic - To construct a water control structure to improve control of water flow.
- Overall - To construct necessary structures to better control the flow and drainage of water on the applicant's property.
The applicant is stated to have designed the proposed work to avoid impacts to jurisdictional resources where possible and to minimize necessary impacts.
Compensatory mitigation will be through the purchase of credits from an approved mitigation bank or banks that service the project area.
The Notice also addresses:
- CULTURAL RESOURCES
- ENDANGERED SPECIES
- ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT
- NAVIGATION
- SECTION 408
- WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION
- EVALUATION
A copy of the Notice can be found here.
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