Joseph Bea, City of Sitka, stated the purpose is to provide safe and reliable seaplane access to Sitka by constructing a new SPB and deactivate/decommission the existing 65-year-old base which is at the end of its useful life and in poor condition. PROPOSED WORK: The project would construct an approximately 3.86-acre gravel pad in uplands, wetlands, and waters of the U.S. on which a haul out ramp and approach dock would be based. The pad would also provide space for vehicle turnaround, parking, basic amenities, curb, vehicle driveway, security fencing, and landscape buffer. Material would be excavated from the side slopes above Sitka Channel to level the proposed fill pad, including from wetlands mapped during the 2020 wetland delineation. The Project would place fill in 0.06 acres of wetlands above HTL, 0.15 acres of intertidal waters between HTL and MWH, and 2.24 acres in marine waters below MHW, resulting in 2.45 acres of fill impacts in WOUS subject to Section 404 of the CWA. Additionally, approximately 0.97 acres of structures below MWH will be placed to support floats, ramps and bridge in marine waters. Please contact Nicholas Baggett at (907) 227-3124 or by email at nicholas.s.baggett@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this public notice.
POA-2023-00433 Sitka Harbor PN