2017-0029
INTRODUCED BY: PAUL J. HOGAN, PE, COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE, DIVISION B
LARRY COCHRAN, PARISH PRESIDENT
RESOLUTION NO.
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A resolution of the St. Charles Parish Council, the St. Charles Parish Council acting as the governing authority of the Sunset Drainage District (the District), and Parish President Larry Cochran in support of the desire of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to not install any type of berms/weirs/hydraulic structures within any canal(s) located within the Sunset Drainage District boundaries that could alter the drainage patterns or retention.
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WHEREAS, The District encompasses roughly 10,000 acres and contains drainage canals and pumping stations which protect thousands of people in the communities of Paradis, Des Allemands and Bayou Gauche; and,
WHEREAS, Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Chevron) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) entered into a Mitigation Banking Instrument dated effective June 2, 2005 (MBI) placing approximately 8,000 acres of its land located within the District into a wetlands mitigation bank known as the Paradis Mitigation Bank (Bank); and,
WHEREAS, upon execution of the MBI in June of 2005, Chevron entered into discussions with the District regarding a Water Management Agreement (WMA) as required in Article X.E of the MBI that would ultimately provide for the installation and maintenance of hydrologic structures located within various feeder canals in an attempt to introduce and maintain wetter conditions within each cell of the Bank; and,
WHEREAS, from the commencement of these negotiations, the District which was under no obligation or requirement to agree to the installation of hydraulic structures and expressed concerns about the effect that the proposed structures would have on the drainage capability of the District and the associated increase in risk to the flooding of structures located within the District; and,
WHEREAS, in August of 2014, Chevron received notice from the Corps that it was suspending ...
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