Permitted Banks: Illinois
Land and Water Resources, Inc. teamed up with Ecologic Planning to form Wetland Mitigation of Illinois (WMI). WMI partnered with Lakewood Homes and Neumann Homes to create a wetland bank in the floodplain of Squaw Creek a tributary to the Fox River. WMI was responsible for all aspects of the bank from conception, development, financing, permitting, construction, operation, and sales. The project was permitted as 6 phases. Lakewood Homes and Neumann Homes each provided land. Total land area of Phases A, D, E and F is 115.9 acres The site, prior to permitting, was a series of farm field with extensive hydric soils and field tiles and drainage ditches in the Squaw Creek floodplain. Squaw Creek is a channelized agricultural drainage ditch. WMI broke field tiles, filled ditches, regraded, and then seeded the site in 2003 and 2004. In 2006 additional grading work was done on a portion of the site which had not re-hydrated. The landowner utilized the upland adjacent to the project to construct a residential subdivision. LAWR was able to create and sell 103.54 acres of wetland mitigation credit in Phases A, D, E and F to offset wetland impact. Management activities at the site included aggressive herbiciding of invasive species, mowing and burning. |
