March 22nd, 2010
David Flick, Principal and Founder, announces the firm has successfully completed Clean Water Act permitting and mitigation design for the Lauren’s Bay Estates residential development in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. The Section 401/404 permit required the avoidance of the majority of the on-site intermittent stream channels and wetlands.
Terra Tech designed the on-site mitigation plan to compensate for the unavoidable impacts to two intermittent stream channels and a single wetland within the residential development. Mitigation activities include stabilization of degraded stream banks with rolled erosion control products, pre-vegetated coir logs, and native vegetation plantings, installation of grade-control weirs within two intermittent streams to prevent stream bed degradation, removal of over six acres of highly invasive bush honeysuckle, creation of 0.05 acres of emergent wetlands, and riparian corridor restoration with native species of trees and shrubs A conservation easement for the mitigation site will be held by the Midwest Mitigation Oversight Association Inc., a local non-profit conservation business. Construction of the mitigation area will begin in the spring of 2010, and Terra Technologies is retained to provide construction oversight and post-construction monitoring of the mitigation area.
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