SWG-2013-00749 - Brad Cooley-Enterprise Products Operating LLC - Neches River - Orange County, Texas

Public Notice     Project Plans

The applicant proposes to permanently discharge fill into 9.93 acres of palustrine emergent (PEM) wetlands, 1.37 acres of palustrine scrub shrub (PSS) wetlands, 17.49 acres of palustrine forested (PFO) wetlands, and 0.02 acre of intermittent stream to construct a new marine terminal and heavy haul access road, as well as expand storage and processing facilities, at the Enterprise Beaumont Marine East (BME) terminal facility. The new dock facilities will consist of a 60-foot by 150-foot platform supported by forty-eight 36-inch-diameter support piles, three 72-inch-diameter protective dolphins, four 96-inch-diameter breasting dolphins, four 84-inch-diameter mooring dolphins, a 20-foot by 123-foot access trestle, a 20-foot by 123-foot pipe rack supported by thirty-five 24-inch-diameter support piles, and a 30-foot by 22-foot fire water dock platform supported by four 24-inch-diameter support piles. New work dredging at the proposed dock would consist of hydraulic and/or mechanical dredging of approximately 975,000 cubic yards (CY) of material with a 17.55-acre area to maximum depth of -54 feet mean lower low water (MLLW). Additional new work dredging would consist of removing approximately 51,000 CY of material at the BME Ship Dock and 105,000 CY of material at the Neches River Terminal (NRT) Ship Dock to deepen the berths to a maximum depth of -54 feet MLLW to match future federal channel depths. Lastly, the applicant has requested 10 years of future maintenance dredging within the proposed and previously authorized dredge footprints. Depending on the results of sediment testing and analysis, the dredge material will be utilized as fill on site and/or be placed in the following Dredged Material Placement Areas (DMPA):  Placement area (PA) 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26, as well as the Texas Parks and Wildlife beneficial use site within the  Lower Neches Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The purpose of the proposed project is to provide the necessary terminal infrastructure and dock facilities to meet growing market needs at the Enterprise Beaumont Marine East terminal to support vessel loading and unloading for the transportation, importing, and exporting of industry products. The purpose also includes dredging activities to deepen the existing ship docks to be consistent with future federal navigation channel depths for safe navigation to the terminal docks.