What is the Division Engineers decision on the King William Reservoir permit application?
The Division Engineer decided to approve the permit application for the construction of the King William Reservoir, along with associated water conveyance pipelines, an intake structure in the Mattaponi River, and activities associated with streams and wetlands mitigation. The Division Engineer approved the permit application after first determining that there is a long-term need for an additional reliable potable water supply for the Lower Virginia peninsula, then balancing and weighing the project’s expected benefits against its reasonably foreseeable detrimental effects, after the detrimental effects were minimized. Specifically, he determined that the project’s expected benefits, the provision of an additional reliable potable water supply and successful implementation of a Streams & Wetlands Mitigation Plan, as well as the signed historic and cultural resources Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement outweighed the reasonably foreseeable detrimental effects.
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