Posted on May 4, 2026
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District issued a permit for the Summer’s End Marina located in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands on April 20. The Standard Permit issued to the Summer’s End Group will allow construction of a marina within the Coral Harbor. The 67,833 square-foot fixed-dock marina would consist of 115 slips to accommodate vessels of varying lengths estimated to range from 30 feet to over 160 feet in length. There would be an additional 12 single moorings constructed southeast of the marina so that the marina could accommodate a total of 127 vessels. The marina includes a boardwalk along the shoreline and associated upland amenities. As mitigative measures, the applicant would relocate four Solenastrea bournoni corals near the dock, outplant 3,000 coral specimens, install seven informational buoys, install information signs at the marina, provide pump out or waste disposal facilities, plant 300 red mangrove seedlings along the shoreline, and maintain 50 stormwater features in the uplands. The applicant would also implement actions that result in the avoidance of impacts to a historic shipwreck.
The project would result in impacts to 2.39 acres of seagrasses. The applicant will be required to provide compensatory mitigation to offset the unavoidable impacts of the marina by restoring, enhancing, and establishing 4.596 acres of a complex of mangrove islands and 0.975 acre of seagrass habitat, conducting annual clean-up events in Coral Harbor, and complying with monitoring requirements and ecologically based performance standards. The central components of that compensatory mitigation project have already been verified under Nationwide Permit 27 as an aquatic ecosystem restoration, enhancement, and establishment project. That project will now be relied on by the Summer’s End Group to provide compensatory mitigation for the authorized marina.
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USACE is neither a proponent nor opponent of any proposed project. USACE’s mission is to provide the regulated public with fair and reasonable decisions while providing protection of the Nation’s aquatic resources and navigation.
