February 4, 2009
David Flick, Principal and Founder, announces that the firm has been selected along with Payne & Brockway Consulting Engineers for design, environmental permitting, and construction oversight of the Coffee Creek Regional Ecobasin project in Olathe, Kansas. In addition to providing flood attenuation, the project will create 30+ acres of wetlands and riparian corridor restoration areas. The project represents one of the largest efforts in the metropolitan Kansas City area for habitat creation in conjunction with storm water run-off treatment. The first 10 minute flush of storm runoff from 400+ acres will be collected in the ecobasin. The basin will include upland and wetland species of native wildflowers, prairie grasses, trees, and shrubs indigenous to eastern Kansas. The design incorporates bio-filtration and bio-utilization processes for mechanical filtration of sediment and biochemical adsorption and plant uptake. For more information about the benefits of regional detention using wet prairie ecobasins click here.
Scientists and engineers with the firm will undertake the requisite design and environmental permit challenges including Endangered Species Evaluation, Archeological Investigation, and Clean Water Act permitting. Work on the project will be initiated in March 2009 in the Leawood, Kansas office of Terra Technologies.
