State and Federal Permitting
United States Army Corps of Engineers

SECTION "404" PERMIT

Who needs a "404" Permit?

Any person or public agency proposing to locate a structure, excavate, or
discharge dredged or fill material into waters of the United States or to
transport dredged material for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters
must obtain a Corps' permit. Typical activities requiring permits include
artificial canals, artificial islands, beach nourishment, boat ramps,
breakwaters, bulkheads, dams , dikes, development behind dikes in coastal
waters, weirs, discharging sand, gravel, dirt, clay, and stone, and
activities that affect dolphins, dredging, filling, groins and jetties,
intake pipes, levees, mooring buoys, ocean dumping, outfall pipes, overhead
power crossings, pipes and cables, piers and wharves, riprap, road fills,
signs, and tunnels.

The Army Corps permit authority derives from the Federal Rivers and Harbors
Act of 1899, Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, and Section 103 of the
Marine Protection, Research, & Sanctuaries Act. These Acts give the Army
Corps jurisdiction over all water of the United States which include, but
are not limited to, the following: perennial and intermittent streams,
lakes, ponds, as well as wetlands in marshes, wet meadows, and side hill
seeps.


"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Depends where you wish to place said mooring.

What location do you have in mind?

S.Simon


"Sidney Hobart" wrote in message
link.net...
I was told by several sources that if I wanted to put a permanent
mooring in
for my boat I would have to get a permit from the Army Corps of
Engineers.

Has anyone gone through this experience?

Thanks all,

Sid