St. Peters, Missouri
Client:
City of St. Peters
Terra Technologies was hired to design more than 50 acres of wetlands and more than 34 acres of riparian habitat as part of the development of a large-scale business park in St. Peters, Missouri. Four wetland areas will be built as compensatory mitigation for impacts to existing streams and wetlands necessary for the creation of the business park. These wetlands will contain emergent, scrub-shrub, and forested plant communities. One of the wetlands will be a 24 acre emergent marsh complete with a meandering recreational canoe trail located in the large recreational lake to be built on the site.
In addition to the design of the mitigation wetlands and riparian areas, Terra Technologies will monitor approximately 106 acres of existing wetlands for five years. Monitoring will determine if the planned development has any negative impacts on the health of the existing wetlands.
Earthwork at the site is currently underway and the wetlands and riparian areas are to be planted in the winter of 2006 and the spring of 2007.
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