SHORELINE AND UPLAND DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION

Date last updated 05/10/2004 by MLSA-SERVICES\gytreeide                                

 The activities listed below apply to non-navigable waters.  Under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, the US Army Corps of Engineers has jurisdiction over all work in, over, under, or affecting navigable waters of the United States (e.g., all the Great Lakes and their connecting channels, portions of all sizeable rivers and streams that empty into the Great Lakes, the entire Inland Route, and all of the “drowned river mouth” lakes that connect with the Great Lakes. If the work is to occur in or adjacent to navigable waters, authorization is required from the US Army Corps of Engineers.  http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/functions/rf/dtwhome.html

A. ACTIVITIES NOT REQUIRING A PERMIT.

1.    Placing or spreading sand along your shoreline.

2.    Building a seawall at or above the high water mark.

3.    Constructing a seasonal dock on your bottomland.

4.    Using water from a lake for domestic purposes.

5.    Construction of a minor drainage structure or ditch that does not change the drainage pattern which previously existed.

 B. ACTIVITIES THAT REQUIRE A PERMIT.

1.    Placing sand on the bottomland of a lake.

2.    Building a seawall below the high water mark.

3.    Making an earth change within 500 feet of a lake or stream.

4.    Filling or dredging a wetland.

5.    Constructing a dock longer than 300 feet.

6.    Digging a channel into the upland or connecting a pond to a lake.

7.    Constructing a permanent dock along the shoreline of a lake.

8.    Constructing a building below the high-water mark.

9.    Constructing a marina.

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