18 Jun 2019

P-3125

The applicant, Debrecht Properties, seeks authorization to conduct grading and filling operations in waters of the United States for construction of a single-family residential development. The development will consists of a 28-lot subdivision, including roadways, utilities and detention basins. The project proposes to impact a total of 818 linear feet of intermittent stream within the Fenton Creek watershed, in the City of Fenton, Missouri. The public notice comment period opens on June 17, 2019 and closes July 7, 2019.

6 Jun 2019

P-3112

Expiration date: 6/6/2019

Cave City Sand requests a Department of the Army permit to install a barge loading terminal with conveyor, two barge fleets and to potentially conduct construction access dredging in the Mississippi River. The construction of a BNSF unit train rail spur and associated placement of overburden fill material in five unnamed ephemeral tributaries to Morrison Creek is also proposed. The project area is located in Sections 14, 15, 22, and 23, Township 39 North, Range 7 East, in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. The proposed river activities are located near the right descending bank of the Mississippi River, at approximate river mile 137. The public notice comment period opens June 6, 2019 and closes on June 26, 2019.

10 May 2019

Special Public Notice - Finalization of the Missouri Bat Programmatic Informal Consultation Framework

The purpose of this public notice is to announce the Kansas City, Little Rock, St. Louis, Rock Island, and Memphis Districts of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service have completed programmatic informal consultation for all activities requiring Department of the Army permits. This consultation, which covers activities in waters of the United States within the state of Missouri, complies with the provisions of Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Completion of this consultation eliminates the need for individual ESA consultation on most permit applications submitted to the Corps for activities located in habitat for bats protected under the ESA. The completion of this consultation will improve the permit evaluation process by reducing the time required for evaluation of many permit applications while assuring compliance with the requirements of the ESA.

25 Apr 2019

P-3124

Expiration date: 5/16/2019

Anchor Yankers, seeks authorization, under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, to continue maintenance dredging operations at the facility in Calhoun County, Illinois on the Mississippi River at Mile 225.2, left bank descending. This proposal is for the re-authorization of the same permit issued to the applicant in August of 2011 (P-2760 Public Notice Issued July 19, 2011). Due to the location behind an island, outside the main channel, periodic dredging of this location is required to maintain an operable depth. No more than 2000cy of accumulated river silt will be removed. This will be done by using a long reach trackhoe on a barge. Material will be removed from the entrance to both ends of the channel behind the island. Silt will be placed in a container on a barge and then placed on the Northwest end of the island, behind the bullnose revetment. This will help to speed up the accretion of material on this end of the island where the Corps of Engineers placed a revetment to arrest erosion of the island. Placement of the material will be authorized under Nationwide Permit #27, just as it was in past years. Nationwide Permit #27 has authorization from the State of Illinois, subject to certain conditions; which will be met. The Public Notice comment period opens on April 25, 2019, and closes on May 16, 2019.

29 Mar 2019

P-3123

Expiration date: 4/19/2019

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District seeks authorization to discharge fill material below the ordinary high water mark of Black Jack Creek by reconfiguring approximately 1,280 linear feet of the existing channel into a U-shaped concrete lined channel for a project known as Hallstead Storm Channel Phase IV. The proposed creek channel reconfiguration would match an existing 45 foot wide concrete lined channel located immediately upstream of the project. The proposed vertical walled channel would gradually increase from 45 feet wide to 59 feet wide at the downstream limits of the project. At the upstream end of the project limits, the channel walls are proposed to be 12 feet high and would gradually increase to 18 feet high in a downstream direction. The vertical concrete walls at the downstream terminus of the project would flare into the existing banks into a new 120-foot long rip rap or gabion lined plunge pool. The plunge pool is designed to dissipate water velocities before the proposed concrete channel transitions back into a natural creek channel downstream of the project limits. All work would occur within an existing 80-foot wide drainage right-of-way and include improvements to existing storm sewer outfalls. The purpose of the project is to eliminate erosion within the project limits and improve conveyance to reduce potential for overbank flooding. As a result of the flood reduction, approximately 50 homes would no longer be located in the 15 or 100- year floodplain. Authorization for this project was granted February 7, 2006 (P-2481) and compensatory mitigation associated with unavoidable impacts to 1400 feet of Black Jack Creek was completed downstream through the creation of riparian buffer habitat in 2007. The project authorization was extended until December 30, 2015, however, construction was never initiated by the applicant. In accordance with the 2008 Compensatory Mitigation Rulemaking Regulations, compensatory mitigation for the proposed project is currently being re-evaluated. The applicant is exploring mitigation options within an approved wetland mitigation bank. The site is located immediately upstream of Vorhof Drive at the downstream end of a 45 foot wide vertical wall concrete channel that was completed in 2003 as part of the Hallstead Storm Channel Phase III project. Black Jack Creek channel improvements are proposed to continue in a downstream direction and cease approximately 120 linear feet downstream of Hudson Drive. More specifically, the site is located Section 5, Township 46 North, Range 7 East, near Dellwood, St. Louis County, Missouri. The Public Notice comment period opens on March 29, 2019, and closes April 19, 2019.