The Strauss Family Trust, states the purpose of the project is to enclose and protect the existing support posts for the outer wall of the house and to allow reconfiguring of support of the deck and foundation. The house foundation is within one to two feet of the existing stacked rock seawall/retaining wall. The close proximity of the house to the wall puts the house’s stability at risk due to concerns regarding soil mechanics and deficiencies of the existing wall. Work being proposed, discharge eight (8) cubic yards (CY) of concrete, 320 CY of three inch minus backfill gravel, and place 65 CY of precast concrete blocks into 0.0225-acre of waters of the U.S. below the high tide line of Nichols Passage in order to create a new backfilled seawall at the existing home. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-4), dated May 17, 2021. The project site is located at Latitude 55.3138º N., Longitude 131.5904º W.; 2954 South Tongass Highway, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Please contact Mrs. Roberta Budnik at (907) 753-2785, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at: Roberta.K.Budnik@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.
POA-2021-00266, Nichols Passage_PN