LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
will host a public meeting from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, to accept public
comment on a permit application to construct a new dock system and 345-slip dry
dock storage facility in association with the MDR Basin H Boat Central-Dry Boat
Storage Project.
The
meeting will take place at the Burton W. Chace Park Meeting Room, 13650
Mindanao Way, in Marina del Rey. The public can provide verbal comments at the
meeting or provide them in writing up to May 20.
The
proposed project would install a new dock system supported by 22 concrete
48-inch diameter support piles impacting approximately 139 square feet of soft-bottom
from the piles only. In addition a new overwater dry-stack structure boat
cueing system would be installed. The structures extend 97 feet seaward on the
westerly side and 45 feet seaward on the easterly side.
Construction
would include 755 linear feet of queuing docks with 32 guide piles (16 inch in diameter)
for a total footprint of 76 square feet. Pile installation would not result in
a discharge of fill material. Total new overwater coverage would be approximately
11,600 square feet (0.26 acre) waters of the United States and would not impact
any eelgrass because none was found nor is expected on-site.
Issuance
of a permit will be based on an evaluation of the probable impact including
cumulative impacts of the proposed activity on the public interest. That
decision will reflect the national concern for both protection and utilization
of important resources. The benefit, which reasonably may be expected to accrue
from the proposal, must be balanced against its reasonably foreseeable
detriments.
Factors
that will be considered include conservation, economics, aesthetics, general
environmental concerns, wetlands, cultural values, fish and wildlife values,
flood hazards, flood plain values, land use, navigation, shoreline erosion and
accretion, recreation, water supply and conservation, water quality, energy
needs, safety, food production and, in general, the needs and welfare of the
people.
The
public notice which contains additional information can be found at http://www.spl.usace.army.mil/Media/PublicNotices/tabid/1320/Article/684719/spl-2014-00307-blr-mdr-basin-h-boat-central-dry-boat-storage-project.aspx