Terra Technologies is constructing the first Wetland and Stream Mitigation Bank in mid-Missouri. This 172-acre restoration site will create 78 acres of riparian corridor to existing and restored streams as well as restore and enhance native prairie and woodland habitats to areas that are currently in pasture or have become degraded.
In addition, Terra Technologies will convert more than 30 acres of agricultural fields into a complex of wetland pools that will improve regional water quality by filtering agricultural runoff from surrounding properties. These wetlands will be created by the removal of agricultural berms, the creation of small berms across the site to divert sheet flow, and the establishment of microtopography.
Importantly, Terra Technologies has found historic evidence of streams that once existed on the site but which have been diverted or destroyed by agricultural practices. These streams have been restored to sinuous channels with planted riparian corridors.
Wetland pools have been constructed to provide hydrology for wetland plants. The water in the pools will fluctuate depending on rainfall and drainage, providing hydrology for forested, scrub-shrub and herbaceous wetland vegetation.
The site has been planted with a variety of native trees and shrubs in dry, moist, and inundated locations. The combination of forested wetland, scrub-shrub wetland, herbaceous wetland, upland prairie, and riparian corridor environments will provide significant improvements to local wildlife habitat. Besides constructing the mitigation bank, Terra Technologies will also perform monitoring, meet all regulatory requirements, and sell the resulting wetland and stream credits. The proposed service area will include parts of Howard, Boone, Cooper, Moniteau, Cole, Callaway, Osage, Saline, Randolph, Montgomery, Warren, St. Charles, St. Louis, Gasconade and Franklin Counties.
Construction commenced in the fall of 2008.
Contact Mr. David Flick at 816-810-8377 for more information.
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