Record · Permits
Blanchard River Watershed, Ohio — Feasibility Report
usace-blanchard-review-plan-2024
Fields
agency
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD)
program
Feasibility Study — flood risk management and ecosystem restoration (Review Plan)
permit_no
—
action
Review Plan published
action_date
2024-01-11
applicant
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project_name
Blanchard River Watershed, Ohio — Feasibility Report
site_address
Blanchard River watershed, Hancock County, Ohio
affected_resource
Blanchard River watershed flood risk management and ecosystem restoration (the federal study track that runs alongside the locally-funded Hancock County Flood-Risk Reduction Program).
note
[reference] The USACE LRD Review Plan (published 2024-01-11) scoping agency + peer review for a Feasibility Study of flood risk management and ecosystem restoration plans for the Blanchard River Watershed. This is the open federal thread behind the flood-mitigation instrument chain: the Corps' prior "Western Diversion of Eagle Creek" recommended plan (presented 2015) "was deemed unlikely to meet Federal funding requirements because of its negative cost benefit ratio and low community support" (program FAQ, verbatim). The 2024 posting's status — renewed feasibility effort vs archival — is [open]; it is flagged as a lead. The locally-funded program (MWCD / Stantec, FEMA FMA + ODNR + Ohio Capital Budget) proceeded independently of the federal study.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- The LRD source page 403'd on direct WebFetch and on curl (Akamai "Access Denied"); the body was obtained via a reader proxy (r.jina.ai). Treat the verbatim string and the 2024-01-11 date as reader-proxy-recovered, not a clean primary read — the article should be re-captured from a non-datacenter IP to lock byte-verbatim text.
- Whether the 2024-01-11 Review Plan signals a RENEWED/active federal feasibility effort or is an archival closeout is an [inference] from the document type (a Review Plan is USACE QA/peer-review scoping, normally produced at the START of a feasibility study) and its title ("Feasibility Study of flood risk management and ecosystem restorations plans"). The page states no "active / renewed / archival" status in words.
- The 2015 USACE recommended plan ("Western Diversion of Eagle Creek") is characterized as having a NEGATIVE benefit-cost ratio in the program FAQ, but no NUMERIC 2015 BCR is public in any source reached. Do NOT confuse that failed federal BCR with the LOCAL program's own 2.94 BCR (the 2018 Jack Faucett Associates / Stantec analysis) — two different studies.
Where it connects
findlay/flood/usace-blanchard-review-plan-2024.epa.yaml · — · findlay