SANDPOINT, Idaho In response to litigation from the Center for Biological Diversity and Idaho Conservation League, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to revoke its permit for the Idaho Club’s marina and lakeside housing development at the mouth of Trestle Creek on Lake Pend Oreille. The creek accounts for more than half of the annual bull trout spawning sites in the Pend Oreille Basin, a species protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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For Immediate Release, May 5, 2021
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Lawsuit Launched to Challenge Luxury Marina, Housing Development on Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille
Idaho Club-Lakeside Development Threatens Protected Bull Trout Habitat
SANDPOINT,
Idaho Conservation groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Army Corps of Engineers and Trestle Creek Investments for approving the Idaho Club-Lakeside luxury housing and marina development near Trestle Creek, one of the most important bull trout spawning streams in the Pacific Northwest.
The planned development calls for the construction of five single-family luxury homes, a boat ramp, two docks and 124 boat slips. It would require the excavation of an island and peninsula and would discharge thousands of tons of concrete, soil and rock into Lake Pend Oreille near the mouth of Trestle Creek.