ENB Region 9 Completed Applications 11/09/2005

The application is for a wetland restoration and enhancement project to improve wildlife habitat within 6.2 acre USDA/NRCS Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) easement site. The project involves restoring aquatic and emergent wetland habitat by constructing a 2.2 acre complex of potholes and connecting level ditches, adjacent to and within State regulated freshwater wetland #EC-2, for waterfowl habitat.  Spoil from the potholes will be moved upland, spread and seeded and/or placed adjacent to the potholes.  The project site is located approximately 2,000 feet south of the intersection of St. Rte. 60 and Carlson Road on the west side of St. Rte. 60.

Applicant proposes to stabilize a replacement channel 450 feet in length of Tributary 45 of Eighteen Mile Creek and use the old channel for overflow. The channel will be extended through an old pond. Three rock vein grade control structures will be installed using heavy stones. Sheet piling will be installed where the old channel meets the new channel and be stablized with rocks along its base. The streambanks will be graded to a 3 to 1 slope, seeded with a wildlife conservation mix and mulched to create a wildlife corridor along the stream. The property is on Trevett Road near Brown Hill Road.

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve this application for a proposed discharge of 60 gallons per day of treated wash waste water into the drainage ditch of North Division Rd which is tributary to Clear Creek, a Class C(T) Stream, from an oil water separator at A. Timmel Farm Equipment Repair located on North Division Rd, 3/4 mile north of New York State Route 39, in the Town of Collins, Erie County. The applicant plans to continue operation of a tractor/ farm equipment repair shop.

The applicant proposes to construct three automotive dealership facilities, totaling approximately 27 acres, within an approximately 89 acre parcel located adjacent to Alvin Road in the Town of Grand Island.  The proposal includes dealership buildings, parking facilities, roads, utilities, septic systems and stormwater detention ponds and will impact approximately 1.82 acres of federally regulated wetlands.  As compensation for federal wetland impacts, the applicant  proposes to construct two wetland areas consisting of mixed wet meadow/emergent and robust emergent marsh and scrub-shrub habitat, with a combined total of approximately 4.05 acres.  In addition, a proposed drainage swale and stormwater detention basin will impact approximately .37 acre of the 100 foot wide regulated adjacent area (AA) of NYS regulated Freshwater Wetland TW-14, a Class II Wetland, and the construction of the wetland mitigation area will impact approximately 3.04 acres of AA.