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03-05-2011, 07:10 PM
The coal industry has been dealing with stream mitigation for nearly a decade, but over the past couple of years other land development projects have had to deal with this issue. Take this case for instance the Clark County school system is building a new high school, all the plans were approved, including ones from the Army Corps of Engineers. After construction began the Corps was notified anonymously (code for environmentalist) that a stream was about to be distrubed, this stream measured 8 inches wide and about 6 inches deep.
âThere is a swell (a gentle sloping area) that runs through the property near the athletic fields, and there is an eight-inch wide, maybe six-inch deep stream on it, but nowhere on any of our maps is it named, nor did they indicate it is blue line,â Murrell said. â
Murrell said Corps officials gave the school district two options in mitigating the problem of the stream.
First, the district could make improvements to the area near the stream by removing any type of non-native plants, such as honeysuckle, then replant native species plants along the creek. The school board would then have to give the Corps deeded ownership of 50 feet of land on each side of the stream, guaranteeing no future construction on the land, as well as a five-year maintenance plan with yearly reports for that portion of the property.
The second option offered to the board was to pay an in-lieu fee of $234,000 and not have to do anything with the stream, which would allow contractors to continue with the work on that area of the property as originally planned.
The in-lieu fee would be paid to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) with the money deposited in the Kentucky Stream and Wetland Mitigation Trust Fund, with the intent of conducting mitigation projects within the same river basin and ecological region.
The school system choose option number 2 and pay $234,000 for in-lieu fees, or should I say for taxpayers to pay the in-lieu fees.
http://www.centralkynews.com/winchesters...6617.story
âThere is a swell (a gentle sloping area) that runs through the property near the athletic fields, and there is an eight-inch wide, maybe six-inch deep stream on it, but nowhere on any of our maps is it named, nor did they indicate it is blue line,â Murrell said. â
Murrell said Corps officials gave the school district two options in mitigating the problem of the stream.
First, the district could make improvements to the area near the stream by removing any type of non-native plants, such as honeysuckle, then replant native species plants along the creek. The school board would then have to give the Corps deeded ownership of 50 feet of land on each side of the stream, guaranteeing no future construction on the land, as well as a five-year maintenance plan with yearly reports for that portion of the property.
The second option offered to the board was to pay an in-lieu fee of $234,000 and not have to do anything with the stream, which would allow contractors to continue with the work on that area of the property as originally planned.
The in-lieu fee would be paid to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) with the money deposited in the Kentucky Stream and Wetland Mitigation Trust Fund, with the intent of conducting mitigation projects within the same river basin and ecological region.
The school system choose option number 2 and pay $234,000 for in-lieu fees, or should I say for taxpayers to pay the in-lieu fees.
http://www.centralkynews.com/winchesters...6617.story
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