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PUBLIC NOTICE - Benneys Bay Sediment Diversion Project De-authorization Initiation
The Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force has initiated procedures to deauthorize the Coastal Wetlands, Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Benneys Bay Sediment Diversion Project (MR-13) as requested by project sponsors based on the significant costs associated with maintaining the project over its 20-year life. Current estimates suggest that maintenance costs related to projected shoaling from the diversion would exceed the assigned cost limitations agreed upon by the Federal and local project sponsors, rendering the project infeasible for construction and beyond the funding capabilities of the CWPPRA program.
This 10th Priority Project List project was supposed to be located in the Mississippi River Delta Basin on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 7.5 miles Above Head of Passes. The objective of the project was to restore vegetated wetlands in an area that is currently shallow open water. The project would have diverted sediments in an effort to create, nourish, and maintain approximately 5,828 acres of fresh to intermediate marsh in the Benneys Bay area over the 20-year project life. Project features were to include construction of a conveyance channel from the Mississippi River with initial average discharge of 20,000 cubic feet per second with subsequent enlargement of the channel to a 50,000 cubic feet per second discharge. Material from construction of the channel would have been used to create wetlands in the diversion outfall area.
Prior to making a final decision, the Task Force will consider written comments on the request to deauthorize the project. Written comments should be provided by August 20, 2012 to the following address:
Colonel Edward R. Fleming
District Commander
US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District
Attention: Project Management Branch, CWPPRA Manager
PO Box 60267
New Orleans, Louisiana 70160-0267
If you need further information, please contact Brad Inman, CWPPRA Program Manager, at (504) 862-2124 or Scott Wandell, Project Manager, at (504) 862-1878.
The Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force has initiated procedures to deauthorize the Coastal Wetlands, Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Benneys Bay Sediment Diversion Project (MR-13) as requested by project sponsors based on the significant costs associated with maintaining the project over its 20-year life. Current estimates suggest that maintenance costs related to projected shoaling from the diversion would exceed the assigned cost limitations agreed upon by the Federal and local project sponsors, rendering the project infeasible for construction and beyond the funding capabilities of the CWPPRA program.
This 10th Priority Project List project was supposed to be located in the Mississippi River Delta Basin on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 7.5 miles Above Head of Passes. The objective of the project was to restore vegetated wetlands in an area that is currently shallow open water. The project would have diverted sediments in an effort to create, nourish, and maintain approximately 5,828 acres of fresh to intermediate marsh in the Benneys Bay area over the 20-year project life. Project features were to include construction of a conveyance channel from the Mississippi River with initial average discharge of 20,000 cubic feet per second with subsequent enlargement of the channel to a 50,000 cubic feet per second discharge. Material from construction of the channel would have been used to create wetlands in the diversion outfall area.
Prior to making a final decision, the Task Force will consider written comments on the request to deauthorize the project. Written comments should be provided by August 20, 2012 to the following address:
Colonel Edward R. Fleming
District Commander
US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District
Attention: Project Management Branch, CWPPRA Manager
PO Box 60267
New Orleans, Louisiana 70160-0267
If you need further information, please contact Brad Inman, CWPPRA Program Manager, at (504) 862-2124 or Scott Wandell, Project Manager, at (504) 862-1878.
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