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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) (“Corps”) issued a May 23rd public notice referencing a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit application.

Section 404 of the Clean Water Act applies to discharges of dredged and/or fill material into waters of the United States.

GCB Land Development, LLC, is stated to be the Section 404 permit applicant. The applicant is stated to be applying for an after-the-fact permit for the construction of a four acre pond within jurisdictional areas. The stated purpose is to provide a recreational pond for a home site.

The pond is stated to have resulted in the fill of approximately 148 linear feet of intermittent stream for construction of a pond levee, inundation of approximately 1,102 linear feet of intermittent stream for the pond, and the culverting of approximately 30 linear feet of intermittent stream on the upstream end of the pond for a crossing. Approximately 132 cubic yards of fill is stated to have been discharged into jurisdictional areas for the construction of the dam. The public notice also describes the spillway and levy along with the relevant vegetative community.

The applicant is stated to be proposing to mitigate for the unavoidable loss of jurisdictional impacts through permittee-responsible mitigation.

A copy of the public notice can be downloaded here.