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Paul J. Diodati Director December 9, 2011 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400 Boston, Massachusetts 02114 (617)626-1520 fax (617)626-1509 Mr. Kevin Kotelly US Army Corps of Engineers 696 Virginia Road Concord, MA 01742 Re: NAE-2009-361 Dear Mr. Kotelly: The Division of Marine Fisheries (MarineFisheries) has reviewed the GP Cat II Application for the Whittier Bridge Replacement Project on the Merrimack River in the Town of Amesbury and City of Newburyport. MarineFisheries has reviewed project plans with respect to potential impacts to marine fisheries resources and habitat. The proposed project consists of the replacement of the existing Whittier Bridge with two independent parallel bridges. In-water work will occur within cofferdams. This section of the Merrimack River provides passage and foraging habitat for a variety of diadromous fish species including alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), American eel (Anguilla rostrata), American shad (Alosa sapidissima), rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), white perch (Morone americana), lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus), and shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum). The Merrimack River also provides habitat for hatchery-raised smolts, juveniles, and retired adult broodstock of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) [1]. Sections of the project area also contain salt marsh, an important habitat for a variety of fish and invertebrate species [2]. MarineFisheries offers the following comments for your consideration: Deval Patrick Governor Timothy P. Murray Lt. Governor Richard K. Sullivan, Jr. Secretary Mary B. Griffin Commissioner • MarineFisheries previously recommended in a letter dated September 8, 2011 that the installation and removal of the cofferdams occur outside of the March 1 to November 1 time-of-year (TOY) restriction period. This recommendation was designed to ensure safe passage for a variety of diadromous fish species including American shad (Alosa sapidissima), Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus), and shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum). Based on additional project information, cofferdam installation will be staged to reduce impact by only installing a single cofferdam at any given time. By avoiding simultaneous installation of multiple cofferdams, this project design would limit the area of impact to less than 5 % of the river width at any given time. This staging approach combined with the nature of the river bottom at the project site (predominantly bedrock) should allow for safe passage of diadromous fishes during the construction
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