Fix eroding Road 250 crossings near Snag Lake
USFS, Road Improvement, Snag Lake, Cordova
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers· Snag Lake (local water body near Cordova, Alaska), 0.68 acres of palustrine wetlands, 0.18 acres of streambedArmy Corps public notice ↗
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4 groups work Alaska
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Alaska Wilderness League
Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.
- Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges
Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.
- Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.
- The Wilderness Society
Works Alaska: has litigated the 211-mile Ambler industrial road since the original 2020 approvals.
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Realigning 1.6 miles of Forest Service Road 250 would stop chronic sediment runoff into Snag Lake area streams.
What’s at risk
Four eroding ford crossings on the 18-Mile Creek system are pushing sediment into local waters. The road sits 2 to 3 feet below grade with no routine maintenance.
If we stay silent
The Army Corps permit would allow the Forest Service to remove all five stream crossings, permanently halting sediment input to the creek system, though it requires placing fill in 0.68 acres of wetlands and 0.18 acres of streambed.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
4 holes in the agency’s own analysis
Make these points, in your own words
- I support this action and urge the agency to advance it.
- This project will reclaim four perennial stream crossings and one intermittent-flow crossing within the 18-Mile Creek system, directly reducing ongoing sediment runoff into local waters near Snag Lake.
- The new alignment of Forest Service Road 250 will eliminate all ford crossings, so the road no longer requires vehicles to drive through streambeds along this 1.6-mile corridor near Cordova, Alaska.
- I support decommissioning the eroding, unmaintained sections of FS Road 250, which is currently entrenched two to three feet deep and actively delivering sediment into Snag Lake.
- Placing 350 cubic yards of fill into 0.68 acres of palustrine wetlands and 206 cubic yards into 0.18 acres of streambed is justified here because the reroute permanently eliminates the erosion sources those wetlands and streambeds are currently suffering from.
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- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
Hampton Coogle, United States Forest Service (USFS), stated the purpose is to rehabilitate the road to provide better public access and reduce erosion into the local water body. This project would be reclaiming and decommissioning sections of road and ford crossing locations. The new alignment would not require any ford crossings and would prevent sediment from entering the local water body as compared to the existing alignment. PROPOSED WORK: The USFS proposes to place 350 cubic yards of fill material into 0.68-acre of palustrine wetlands and 206 cubic yards of fill material into 0.18-acre of streambed to realig…
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