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2018 National Watershed and Stormwater Conference

4/2/2018

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​​Ecotone is proud to support the Center for Watershed protection (CWP) as a sponsor for the 2018 National Watershed and Stormwater Conference scheduled for April 10, 2018. The conference will provide real-world solutions with detailed examples from case studies and lessons learned from past approaches so that attendees have a firm grasp of tangible solutions and industry best-practices.

This year’s conference theme is Next Gen Watershed Protection: Fresh Ideas for Funding and Management. The national webcast talks are designed to help today’s water quality experts not only address pollution but also navigate the world of uncertain program funding and regulatory oversight that can jeopardize watershed restoration projects. 

For attendees in the Hub locations, who want to learn about the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs), there will be speakers from the Maryland Department of the Environment  and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality sharing their progress and successful approaches to meeting plan requirements focused on restoring the Chesapeake Bay.
Scott McGill, our CEO and President has been invited as a panelist for the "Ask the Expert Stream Restoration Roundtable". During this session, he will be presenting his views on CBP Stream Restoration Protocols, future direction of stream restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and innovations in sustainable ecological restoration techniques.
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Doug Propheter, our Chief Administrative Officer along with Jessica Cherwich and Steve Pawlak, our Business Development Specialists will also be participating at this conference. Please stop by the Ecotone display table in the exhibit area to meet with our team and learn about our sustainable ecological restoration solutions.
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Knowledge Credits: 
Center for Watershed protection
www.cwp.org/2018-national-conference
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MEET ECOTONE AT 2018 NMEBC

3/21/2018

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​​Ecotone is proud to support the National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference (NMEBC) scheduled to be held in Louisville, KY from May 7–11, 2018​. This conference brings together leading policymakers, bankers, industry consultants along with members of the environmental community to advance and protect the environment in a financially sustainable way.

Ashley Abernethy, Director of Environmental Markets and Jessica Cherewich, Business Development Specialist will be participating at this event. Please stop by booth #32 in the exhibit hall to meet with the Ecotone team and learn how our turn-key mitigation services deliver cost-effective restoration solutions.

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Knowledge Credit:
www.mitigationbankingconference.com
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WHAT IS A MITIGATION BANK?

5/15/2017

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​A mitigation bank is a wetland, stream, or other aquatic resource area that has been restored, established, enhanced, or in certain circumstances preserved for the purpose of providing compensation for unavoidable impacts to aquatic resources permitted under Section 404 or a similar state or local wetland regulation.

A mitigation bank may be created when a government agency, corporation, nonprofit organization, or other entity undertakes these activities under a formal agreement with a regulatory agency. Mitigation banks have four distinct components:
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  • The Bank Site: the physical acreage restored, established, enhanced, or preserved;
  • The Bank Instrument: the formal agreement between the bank owners and regulators establishing liability, performance standards, management and monitoring requirements, and the terms of bank credit approval;
  • The Interagency Review Team: the inter-agency team that provides regulatory review, approval, and oversight of the bank; and
  • The Service Area: the geographic area in which permitted impacts can be compensated for at a given bank.

The value of a bank is defined in "compensatory mitigation credits." A bank's instrument identifies the number of credits available for sale and requires the use of ecological assessment techniques to certify that those credits provide the required ecological functions. Although most mitigation banks are designed to compensate only for impacts to various wetland types, some banks have been developed to compensate specifically for impacts to streams (i.e., stream mitigation banks).

Mitigation banks are a form of "third-party" compensatory mitigation, in which the responsibility for compensatory mitigation implementation and success is assumed by a party other than the permittee. This transfer of liability has been a very attractive feature for Section 404 permit-holders, who would otherwise be responsible for the design, construction, monitoring, ecological success, and long-term protection of the site.

Mitigation banking has a number of advantages over traditional permittee-responsible compensatory mitigation because of the ability of mitigation banking programs to:
  • Reduce uncertainty over whether the compensatory mitigation will be successful in offsetting project impacts;
  • Assemble and apply extensive financial resources, planning, and scientific expertise not always available to many permittee-responsible compensatory mitigation proposals;
  • Reduce permit processing times and provide more cost-effective compensatory mitigation opportunities; and
  • Enable the efficient use of limited agency resources in the review and compliance monitoring of compensatory mitigation projects because of consolidation.


Knowledge Credit: 
  • www.epa.gov/cwa-404/mitigation-banking-factsheet 
  • http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Missions/RegulatoryA/Mitigation/
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