Public Notices

15 Mar 2023

POA-2006-00200 Poltes Slough PN

Expiration date: 4/14/2023

Mr. Brett Nelson, Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (ADOT&PF), 2301 Peger Road, Fairbanks, AK 99709 states the purpose is to rehabilitate the runway to meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards and reestablish safe and efficient surfacing for aviation operations. Minimal surfacing remains, exposing the subbase and increasing safety concerns. Embankments have significant slope failures, which reduces the runway safety area below standard 150-foot width per FAA Advisory Circulars (AC) 150/5300-13B. The airport lighting system is beyond its projected 20-year useful life and has experienced prolonged outages due to system failures, requiring increasing levels of maintenance to remain operable. The airport access road has failing culverts and sections which become soft during the wet season, making access to the airport less reliable. Road rehabilitation will re-establish safe and reliable access to the airport. ADOT&PF is proposing to discharge up to 75,800 cubic yards of clean fill material to permanently impact 9.7 acres and temporarily impact 10 acres of aquatic resources in order to conduct rehabilitation operations of the Marshall Airport located in Marshall, Alaska. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (Sheets 1–10), dated November 2022 to January 2023. The project site is located at Latitude 61.8735, Longitude -162.0433; near Poltes Slough in Marshall, Alaska. Please contact Allen Atkins at (907) 753-2780, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at patrick.a.atkins@usace.army.mil, if further information is desired concerning this notice.

8 Mar 2023

POA-2023-00037 Wallace Lake PN

Expiration date: 4/7/2023

Matthew Soloy, Soloy Construction LLC. P.O. Box 874645, Wasilla, Alaska 99654, email: matt_soloy@hotmail.com, telephone: (907) 232-9597, states the purpose is to create a permanent area to dispose of overburden and excess material and create a snow storage area associated with the development of 100 feet by 80 feet shop building and a 3-acre laydown yard in adjacent uplands. Overburden would be the result of developing adjacent uplands for a shop and a laydown yard. To discharge 7,000 cubic yards of overburden in 1.38 acres (500 feet by 120 feet) of palustrine wetlands to create a permanent area to dispose overburden and as snow storage. The proposed fill is associated with the development of adjacent uplands for a 100 feet by 80 feet shop building and a 3-acre laydown yard. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-3), dated January 10, 2023. The project site is located within Section 11, T. 17 N., R. 2 W., Seward Meridian; USGS Quad Anchorage C-7; Latitude 61.57839º N., Longitude 149.58429º W.; 5314 West Parks Highway. Directions: from Parks Highway heading north, take a left on Museum Drive, in Wasilla, Alaska. Please contact Estrella Campellone at (907) 753-2518, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, or by email at Estrella.f.campellon@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this public notice.

6 Mar 2023

Revised Public Notice, POA-2003-00502-M20, Knik Arm

Expiration date: 3/21/2023

On September 6, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District published a public notice for Department of the Army (DA) permit number POA-2003-00502-M20, Knik Arm for a DA permit application from the Municipality of Anchorage, Port of Alaska (Port), to remove approximately 900 feet of unstable bulkhead and fill at the north end of the Port referred to as the North Extension Stabilization Step 1 (NES1) project. This public notice has been revised to include the following two changes:  1) The existing sheet pile bulkhead would likely become unstable as the impounded soil material is removed, so the contractor has proposed installing temporary support piles along the front of the bulkhead to safely stabilize the existing sheet pile wall during material removal (see below figure). Working on one-third of the bulkhead at a time, the contractor would start by using a vibratory hammer to install 27 temporary support piles, 24-inches to 36-inches in diameter, evenly spaced along the southernmost third of the sheet pile bulkhead. With the support in place, the contractor would begin excavation and demolition at the southernmost cell using a combination of land-side and sea-side mechanical excavation. After excavating enough material to be able to safely remove the bulkhead, the contractor would remove the sheet piles and the temporary support piles with the vibratory hammer, utilizing a work barge to haul off the removed sheet piles. The contractor would then move the 27 temporary piles northward to the next one-third of the bulkhead to repeat the process. These actions would be repeated three times in total. 2) The contractor proposes to increase the potential volume of dredged material below the waterline from 1.2 million cubic yards to 1.35 million cubic yards, as a contingency in case it is necessary to dredge deeper than originally anticipated to remove or cut-off the sheet-pile below the mudline. This would increase the potential total volume of material to be disposed of in the Anchorage Harbor in-water disposal site by 150,000 cubic yards. Also, it is now estimated that the material to be removed above the waterline would approximate 115,000 cubic yards, as opposed to the 130,000 cubic yards originally estimated, for a total of approximately 1.465 million cubic yards of material to be removed in association with the project. The project site is in Knik Arm, at the Port of Alaska, within Section 7, T. 13 N., R. 3 W., Seward Meridian; USGS Quad Map Anchorage A-8; Latitude 61.233499º N., Longitude 149.985068º W.; in Anchorage, Alaska. Please contact Heather Markway at (907) 753-2797, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, or by email at Heather.N.Markway@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

15 Feb 2023

POA-2023-00060 Elfin Cove PN

Expiration date: 3/2/2023

Tanaku Lodge (Mr. James Benton) states the purpose is to provide safe and reliable navigation and moorage of small recreational vessel at the Tanaku Lodge. To dredge 420 cubic yards of marine sediment from the seafloor adjacent to an existing moorage float to a depth of minus 8-feet mean low low water. The applicant is proposing in-water disposal of the dredged material at the Port Althorp Dredge Disposal Area. The proposed dredging would take place at the same time as a planned Civil Works Program dredging project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) in the vicinity of this project. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-4), dated January 2023. The project site is located within Section 25, T. 42 S., R. 55 E., Copper River Meridian; USGS Quad Map MT Fairweather A1 and A-2; Latitude 58.1939º N., Longitude -136.3494º W. (Dredge Site) (ADNR Original Tideland Lease ADL 106340), Latitude 58.1516º N., Longitude -136.3413º W. (Dredged Material Disposal Site); near Elfin Cove, Alaska. Please contact Ms. Delana Wilks at (907) 201-5021, or by email at Delana.P.Wilks@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this public notice.

13 Feb 2023

POA-2023-00061 Jarvis Creek PN

Expiration date: 3/15/2023

Clifford Baker, Fort Greely, P.O. Box 31310, Fort Greely, AK 99731 states the purpose is to repair an eroded section of the Ammunition Holding Area (AHA) Patrol Road, stabilize the west bank of Jarvis Creek, and prevent erosion of the Fort Greely AHA, security fence, and the Patrol Road. The proposed project would stabilize a 1,350-foot length of the west bank of Jarvis Creek. Approximately 3,000 cubic yards of riprap and 635 cubic yards of clean gravel would be placed along the bank, including below ordinary high water, to re-establish the eroded section of the patrol road and the adjacent three (3) feet buffer between the road and streambank. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1–4), dated February 2023. The project site is located within Sections 12 & 13, T. 11 S., R. 10 E., Sections 7 & 18, T. 11 S., R. 11 E., Fairbanks Meridian; Latitude 63.9704º N., Longitude 145.6836º W.; within Fort Greely, Alaska. From Delta Junction drive south on the Richardson Highway for 4.2 miles. Turn left at the gate to Fort Greely. Pass through the security gate and continue straight for 0.4-mile. Turn left onto Robin Road and continue for 0.1-mile. Turn right onto Arctic Avenue and follow 0.75-mile to the T-intersection. Take a left and continue for 0.4-mile. Take a right onto the unnamed road. Drive 0.5-mile. The north end of the stabilization project will be on your left. Access to Fort Greely is restricted and requires checking in with the Army. Please contact Greg Mazer at (907) 347-9059, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, or by email at Gregory.J.Mazer@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this public notice.