Wetland and Stream Mitigation and Restoration Resources

Virginia Mitigation Banking Instrument Template (October 2018)

• MBI Template with Exhibits A, B, D - M

• MBI Template Exhibit C - Site Selection Criteria

Final Compensatory Mitigation Rule (Federal Register, April 2008)

Permittee Responsible Mitigation

• Draft NRO PRM Wetland Conditions 2018-11-29

• NRO Escrow Agreement Template 2018-10-11

• NRO PRM LTMP Rcvd 2018-10-01

External Links

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory

• EPA Fact Sheet on Mitigation Banking

• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality - What is Mitigation?

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Institute for Water Resources

Articles and Other Documents

• Improving Compensatory Mitigation Project Review
  R. Kihslinger, J.M. McElfish, Jr., D. Scicchitan, August 2020, published by Environmental Law Institute

• Readily Available Hydrologic Models: Pertinence to Regulatory Application
  B.A. Pruitt, Wetlands Regulatory Assistance Program ERDC/TN WRAP-20-1, 12 pp., September 2020.

• Season Length Indicators and Land-Use Effects in Southeast Virginia Wet Flats.
  A.C. Burdt, J.M. Galbraith, W. L. Daniels, Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:1551–1558, 2005.

• Developing Defensible Wetland Mitigation Ratios: A Companion to “The Five-Step Wetland Mitigation Ratio Calculator” (September 2004)

• COE Norfolk District and Virginia DEQ Recommendations for Wetland Compensatory Mitigation (July 2004)

• COE Regulatory Guidance Letter for the Establishment and Maintenance of Compensatory Mitigation Projects (October 2001)

• Financial Assurance Instruments for Compensatory Mitigation Under the Corps Regulatory Program

• IWR White Paper: Implementing Financial Assurance for Mitigation Project Success

• Can the Mitigation Regulations Deliver Better Mitigation? Use Private Sector Models
  (article by Peggy Strand reprinted by permission from National Wetlands Newsletter, March 2009)

• The Influence of Microtopography on Soil Nutrients in Created Mitigation Wetlands
  K.F. Moser, C. Ahn, G.B. Noe, Restoration Ecology, June 2008

• Soil Properties in Northern Virginia Created Forested Wetlands

• “Wetland Mitigation Banking,” Chapter 7 in Applied Wetlands Science and Technology. 2nd edition. 2000. Chapter authors: Michael S. Rolband, Ann Redmond, and Tom Kelsch.

• The Nature Conservancy - Watershed Approach Handbook

• Performance or Payment Bond Template for Compensatory Mitigation Sites

• Mitigation Site Protection (presentation by Steve Martin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Hydraulic Roughness and Manning's n Value

• Guide for Selecting Manning's Roughness Coefficients for Natural Channels and Flood Plains

• Study of Hydraulic Roughness in Wetland Vegetation Takes New Look at Manning's n: Wetlands Research Program Bulletin (March 1994)

Presentations

Dealing with the New World of Wetland and Stream Permitting in 2007 

Stream-specific resources for mitigation and restoration

Design and Regulatory Resources

• Unified Stream Methodology for use in Virginia, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District and Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, January 2007:

  • USM (pdf)

  • USM forms

  • USM on Norfolk COE's website

• Stream Impact Assessment Manual (SIAM) - Version 1.3

• US Forest Service, National Stream and Aquatic Ecology Center: Guidance for Stream Restoration, May 2017

• Natural Channel Design - Fundamental Concepts, Assumptions, and Methods

• 2008 Draft Technical Guidance for Stream Restoration Projects – Fairfax County Land Development Services (LDS)

• DEQ Success Criteria

• VAPSS Technical Meeting

• VA Stream Restoration and Stabilization BMP Guide

• Chesapeake Stormwater Network: Recommendations of the Expert Panel To Define Removal Rates for Individual Stream Projects

Articles, Presentations, and Studies

• Water Temperature, pH, and Road Salt Impacts on the Fluvial Erosion of Cohesive Streambanks
  (S. Hoomehr, A. Akinola, T. Wynn-Thompson, et al., Water : 302 (2018))

• Responses of fishes and lampreys to the re‐creation of meanders in a small English chalk stream.
  (Champkin JD, Copp GH, Sayer CD, et al. River Res Applic. 34: 34–43 (2018))

• The Quality of Our Nation's Waters: Effects of Urban Development on Stream Ecosystems in Nine Metropolitan Study Areas Across the United States

• Civil Engineering News - Mitigation Bank Finances, Major Stream Restoration

• Daylighting Streams: Breathing New Life Into Urban Streams and Communities

• Daylighting - New Life for Buried Streams

• USGS Quality of Our Nations Waters: Ecological Health in the Nation's Streams, 1993-2005