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<br />Issue No.6: There is no attached copy of the Helton and Williamson Report. <br /> <br />ResDonse: A copy of the Report has been delivered electronically. <br /> <br />Issue No.7: There is no copy of the Dam safety MOU. <br /> <br />ResDonse: A copy of the MOU has been delivered electronically. <br /> <br />Issue No.8: The application mentions that 1,264 acres of wetlands may have been <br />mapped including Fens. However, there is no mention of what the proposed water <br />activity may specifically impact. <br /> <br />ResDonse: Sugnet & Associates delineated 1,264 acres of waters of the U.S., in <br />the general vicinity of the Reservoir. These are areas over which the U.s. Army <br />Corps of Engineers (USACE) has authority to regulate under Section 404 of the <br />Clean Water Act. Of this, 288 acres of jurisdictional wetlands were delineated, <br />which includes two potential fens areas, one downstream of the dam and one on <br />the south side of the reservoir above the ordinary high water marl(. It was <br />determined during the Phase 1 geotechnical investigation that, because an <br />enlargement would entail raising the existing dam crest rather than constructing a <br />new embanl(ment, the potential fens area on the downstream side of the dam will <br />lil(ely not be impacted. The other potential fens area also may not be impacted <br />because only an 11,000 AF storage increase was deemed feasible. An <br />enlargement may, however, inundate other "normal" wetlands areas surrounding <br />the reservoir, though preliminary analysis shows that less than ten percent of the <br />jurisdictional wetlands would be impacted by a ten foot enlargement. The USACE <br />will lil(ely require the applicant to prepare a wetlands mitigation plan to <br />compensate for inundated areas. This is part of Tasl( 2 in the grant application. <br />