Posted in freshwater on Feb 2nd, 2013
The cleanup of the Bronx River helped blunt the impact of Hurricane Sandy write JOSÉ SERRANO AND JOHN F. CALVELLI in Crain’s (http://www.crainsnewyork.com) The tristate area is only beginning to recover from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy. As we assess the damage and how we prepare for a future storm, it is worth noting [...]
Posted in policy on Nov 20th, 2012
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Choose Clean Water Coalition (which is comprised of 225 environmental organizations throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed) felt that they had consensus on the use of nutrient trading as a viable tool to help meet the nutrient and sediment runoff goals as outlined by the U.S. EPA’s bay wide [...]
Posted in restoration on Jul 14th, 2011
Kudos are deserved for the North Carolina legislature for recently passing legislation (which Governor Perdue signed) addressing an issue that has plagued the stream and wetland restoration efforts for years: insufficient project assessment, design and monitoring. Fifteen years ago, Trout Headwaters, Inc (THI) entered the stream restoration industry, and unfortunately, a significant amount of our [...]
Posted in sustainability on Apr 15th, 2011
Conservation banks are permanently protected lands with high natural resource values. These lands are both conserved and permanently managed for species that are endangered, threatened, candidates for listing, or other species-at-risk. According to the National Mitigation Banking Association (NMBA), Conservation banks function to offset unavoidable adverse impacts to these species that occurred elsewhere. “In exchange [...]
Posted in ecology on Oct 26th, 2010
In his brilliant reflection on one of the oldest professions in the world, Professor Gedeon Dagan writing in “Water Voices From Around the World” exposes the common ground shared by ancient and modern hydrology. Dagan notes that “hydrology is intertwined with economy, political and social issues; predictions had a serious impact on the sustainability and [...]
Posted in planning on Jul 19th, 2010
Why buy credits in a mitigation bank instead of creating a wetland or restoring a stream on- or off-site? Purchasing credits gives the developer these major benefits: Save time and money: The developer, after following the 404(B)(1) Guidelines to try to avoid or minimize wetland or stream impacts, then does not have to go through [...]
Posted in policy on Jul 7th, 2010
The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued revised regulations on March 31, 2008 governing compensatory mitigation for authorized impacts to wetlands, streams, and other waters of the U.S. under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. These regulations are designed to improve the effectiveness of compensatory mitigation to replace lost aquatic resource [...]
Posted in planning on Jun 14th, 2010
A Sustainable Chesapeake: Better Models for Conservation provides conservation resources for individuals, organizations, governments and businesses across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This recently released volume profiles case studies of conservation practices and techniques and describes the protection of land and water resources. The thirty-one case studies feature the work of government and private organizations and [...]
Posted in stewardship on May 22nd, 2010
Author Alice Kenny writes: “In the classic US television comedy The Beverly Hillbillies, a poor mountaineer named Jed Clampett strikes oil on his land and must adapt to a new life of luxury. Audiences chuckled and cheered, and no one questioned for a moment Jed’s right to cash in on his largesse. After all, it [...]
Posted in policy on Mar 30th, 2010
Mitigation banking is the practice of restoring, creating, enhancing, or preserving off-site wetland areas to provide compensatory mitigation for authorized impacts to wetlands. Mitigation banking is completed by a third party. This is in contrast to permittee-responsible mitigation, where the permittee compensates for its own impacts either on- or off-site. A permittee desiring to fill [...]
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