Wetland Mitigation Services in Florida
aA project that aims to enhance, restore, create, or preserve a certain type of habitat is a mitigation project. The stated goal of any mitigation project is to prevent any further functional loss to the species/habitat while still allowing for unavoidable impacts. Wetland mitigation is the most common type of compensatory mitigation. Other common types of mitigation in Florida include Gopher Tortoise, Sand Skink, Scrub Jay, and Panther. Large mitigation projects (Mitigation Banks) are awarded mitigation credits by regulators if they meet their preauthorized success criteria. The Mitigation Bank can then sell those credits to developers to offset unavoidable impacts to habitat within the bank's service area.
Impacting wetlands can be very expensive depending on location and size of impact. Sometimes developers can avoid purchasing mitigation credits by doing onsite mitigation. This is usually accomplished by preserving other onsite wetlands or removing invasive exotic plant species. However, regulators have declared a preference for mitigation to come from a mitigation bank if there is a bank serving the project's watershed.
Verde offers a few services in regards to mitigation. We can perform UMAM (Uniform Mitigation Assessment Methodology) analysis on your wetlands to estimate the cost to impact them. This information can be collected at the same time as the wetland delineation and does not substantially increase the price. If your project has impacts that are unavoidable, Verde offers help with obtaining ERPs (Environmental Resource Permits) and completing the associated Mitigation Plan.
We can also assess larger properties for potential to create a mitigation bank. Here we look for impaired hydrology and non-native vegetative communities and assess whether there is a need for such a bank in the likely service area. If we find the property has potential, we can create a Mitigation Feasibility Analysis Report to present to potential investors and regulators during the prospectus. If the project does get the go ahead, Verde can manage the mitigation work such as road removals, ditch blocks, vegetation plantings, invasive species removals, and fire treatments.
Impacting wetlands can be very expensive depending on location and size of impact. Sometimes developers can avoid purchasing mitigation credits by doing onsite mitigation. This is usually accomplished by preserving other onsite wetlands or removing invasive exotic plant species. However, regulators have declared a preference for mitigation to come from a mitigation bank if there is a bank serving the project's watershed.
Verde offers a few services in regards to mitigation. We can perform UMAM (Uniform Mitigation Assessment Methodology) analysis on your wetlands to estimate the cost to impact them. This information can be collected at the same time as the wetland delineation and does not substantially increase the price. If your project has impacts that are unavoidable, Verde offers help with obtaining ERPs (Environmental Resource Permits) and completing the associated Mitigation Plan.
We can also assess larger properties for potential to create a mitigation bank. Here we look for impaired hydrology and non-native vegetative communities and assess whether there is a need for such a bank in the likely service area. If we find the property has potential, we can create a Mitigation Feasibility Analysis Report to present to potential investors and regulators during the prospectus. If the project does get the go ahead, Verde can manage the mitigation work such as road removals, ditch blocks, vegetation plantings, invasive species removals, and fire treatments.