ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 05/19/2004

The applicant proposes to excavate two wildlife habitat ponds at his property two miles east of Natural Bridge, on Slye Road.  The site is located approximately 700' south of Syle Road, 3,000' west of Aldrich Road.  One pond would be approximately 50' wide x 125' long x 1' to 4' deep and an adjacent pond would be approximately 170' wide x 210' long x 1' to 10' deep.  The ponds would encroach upon and into regulated freshwater wetland NB-35, a 2100 acre Class 1 wetland.  The site is predominately upland, grading to wet meadow and sparse scrub-shrub wetland and would border dense coniferous wetland.

The applicant proposes to construct two new sidetracks along the CSX Railroad, west of Belvedere Boulevard on the Fort Drum Military Reservation, for logistical support.  The sidetracks will total 10,000 lineal feet and will permanently impact 0.3 acres of federally regulated freshwater wetland.  The wetland impacts will be mitigated through debiting from the established wetland mitigation bank on the reservation.