News Release
| Release Number: | 05-114 |
| Dated: | 8/4/2005 |
| Contact: | Jennifer A. Sowell, 503-808-4510 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reviewing three permit applications requesting a Department of the Army permit for certain work in waters of the United States. The public notices regarding the permit applications listed here were issued during the month of August, 2005.
Public Notice 200300746, requested by Olson Enterprises. The project is located in wetlands adjacent to McNulty Creek in St. Helens, Ore. The project’s purpose is to build a commercial business center on 13.96 acres, involving the discharge of fill material into 2.14 acres of U.S. waters consisting of palustrine emergent and scrub shrub wetlands. The total volume of fill would be 2,000 cubic yards. To offset the permanent loss of functions and values of the wetlands, the applicant proposes to create 6.47 acres of palustrine scrub shrub/forested wetland and enhance 0.095 acre of palustrine emergent wetland off-site. Comments must be received by Aug. 31, 2005. A copy of the public notice may be found at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/g/docs/notices/200300746.pdf.
Public Notice 200500514, requested by the Central Oregon Irrigation District and the Oregon Department of Transportation. The project is located in Redmond, Ore., east of U.S. 97, approximately 0.25 miles south of the intersection of King Road and Canal Boulevard, in Pilot Butte Canal and wetlands adjacent to the canal. The project’s purpose is to replace 904 linear feet of open channel in Pilot Butte Canal with a 665-foot long, 108-inch diameter steel pipe and inlet and outlet structures approximately 35 feet long to convert the abandoned canal segment into a stormwater collection system. A portion of the piped segment will also accommodate a future roadbed. This will reduce water loss from evaporation and leakage, and accommodate local and regional traffic improvements for U.S. 97. To compensate for impacts to 0.97 acre of wetland waters the applicants propose to create 0.97 acre of emergent wetlands adjacent to the Crooked River, approximately two miles northwest of Prineville, Ore. Comments must be received by Aug. 17, 2005. A copy of the public notice may be found at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/g/docs/notices/200500514.pdf.
Public Notice 199500371, requested by the Port of Garibaldi. The project is located in the Garibaldi Boat Basin near the Port of Garibaldi near Tillamook County, Ore. The purpose is to conduct maintenance dredging within the Garibaldi Boat Basin to provide adequate vessel access. Approximately 18,000 cubic yards of fine sediment will be removed annually, with a total of 50,000 cubic yards of material removed over the five-year life of the permit. Dredged sediments will be discharged at a temporary outfall during ebb tide into Tillamook Bay. Comments must be received by Sept. 1, 2005. A copy of the public notice may be found at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/g/docs/notices/199500371.pdf.
The Corps of Engineers is soliciting comments from the public, federal, state and local agencies, Indian Tribes and other interested parties on these permit requests.
The Corps of Engineers will issue or deny any permit under authority of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, for discharge of dredged or fill material into U.S. waters, and/or under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 for work in or affecting navigable waters of the United States.
If the applicants have submitted a mitigation plan with the permit request, it will be considered. If a permit is issued, the Corps will decide on the appropriate and practicable compensatory mitigation for each proposed project.
For more information on any public notice under consideration by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, please visit the permit section on the Portland District’s website at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil.