JACKSON, Wyo. (KIFI) – The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) has acquired a request from Reiman Corporation for a short lived enhance in turbidity within the Snake River close to Jackson, Wyo.
The non permanent enhance in turbidity is related to substitute of the County Road 22-10 (Swinging Road) bridge over the Snake River.
Activity in chilly water streams just like the Snake River is often restricted to a ten (10) NTU enhance over background. Approval of this request would permit an exceedance of this restrict for as much as eighty (80) complete working days, topic to monitoring and reporting. This exercise will comply with the procedures in Chapter 1, Section 23(c)(ii), of the WDEQ Water Quality Rules, which permit for non permanent elevated ranges of turbidity in sure circumstances. Best administration practices, together with using coffer-dams, will probably be carried out to attenuate in-stream turbidity throughout development. The applicant has secured a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 404 allow for the undertaking.
Requests for details about the proposed non permanent turbidity enhance must be directed to Eric Hargett by electronic mail ([email protected]) or cellphone (307-777-6701). Written feedback should be addressed to Eric Hargett, Wyoming DEQ/WQD, 200 W. seventeenth Street – 4TH ground, Cheyenne, WY, 82002, and be postmarked on or earlier than 5:00 p.m. on Nov. 29, 2023 to be thought-about. Electronic feedback could solely be submitted via and accepted by the Wyoming DEQ remark portal supplied HERE. Phone feedback is not going to be accepted.
