21 May 2025

2025-00207-RLG (Elwell Farms)

Expiration date: 6/5/2025

Contour Civil & Development is proposing a large-lot single-family residential development project on an approximate 333 acres in the City of Ham Lake. The development will include the construction of 105 lots, new city roadways, a neighborhood park, two “lakes” and seven stormwater treatment areas, and the installation of utilities.

15 May 2025

Lanners Wetland Bank Development

Expiration date: 6/14/2025

The proposed mitigation bank project is in BSA 7, which has approximately 23 counties located wholly or partially within its boundaries. The sponsor states that there are currently 36 approved mitigation banks within BSA 7. Twenty-six have federal and state credits available and ten (four are agricultural banks) have State-only credits available. Sixteen of the 26 banks with federal and state credits have less than two credits available. Population centers such as St. Cloud, Hutchinson, Monticello, Rogers, Albertville-St. Michael, and a portion of the Twin Cities metro area are included in BSA 7. These areas are rapidly developing, and future wetland impacts are anticipated which could require compensatory mitigation indicating a future need for bank credits.

8 May 2025

Silver Lake Dredging and Dam Modification

Expiration date: 5/24/2025

The purpose of the project is to modify the Silver Lake Dam and to dredge the Silver Lake flow channel to lessen a public safety drowning hazard, to remove a barrier to aquatic organism passage, to maintain the lake’s capacity for flood passage, and to improve recreational navigation of the lake.

8 May 2025

Special Public Notice for Cultivated Fields Methodology

Expiration date: 6/7/2025

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District Regulatory Division (Corps) and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (Wisconsin DNR) are announcing the opportunity to use a standardized method for determining credit potential associated with proposed wetland hydrology restorations in fields that are subject to annual cultivation. The Corps and Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) developed this methodology for use in Minnesota in 2019, and since then, implementation of this methodology has helped to streamline credit determinations. In Wisconsin, applicants proposing permittee responsible mitigation or sponsors proposing bank or in-lieu fee wetland restoration projects may use this methodology in association with seeking project approval under the 2008 Federal Mitigation Rule (33 CFR Part 332), and ch. NR 350, Wis. Adm. Code.