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PICKENS COUNTY, Ala., Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Westervelt Ecological Services (WES) has received approval for the Sipsey River Mitigation Bank (SRMB) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). The project is located 20 miles west of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This is the first bank approved to provide wetland and stream compensatory mitigation credits within the Sipsey River watershed (Hydrologic Unit Code 03160107). It is WES' fourth compensatory mitigation bank in the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Basin and 12th mitigation bank in the USACE's Mobile District. The SRMB totals 517 acres and includes over 25,000 linear feet of streams. The USACE approved mitigation credits for 501 acres of enhancement in bottomland hardwood wetlands and 8,800 linear feet of restoration in intermittent streams. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
