Located on the former Remy Farm site owned by the City of Battle Ground, Washington, the Remy Farm Consolidated Mitigation Project rehabilitated and created approximately 60 acres of wetland and riparian habitat in the upper Mill Creek sub-basin within the City. The project provides advanced mitigation, allowing for public infrastructure projects and other commercial development…
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Regional General Permit
ELS was contracted by the Port of Chehalis to develop a programmatic wetland mitigation plan for future industrial development as a component of the Programmatic Mitigation Plan Agreement between the Port of Chehalis and the Washington Department of Ecology. The project evolved into a Corps regional general permit (RGP) in early 2009. ELS has been…
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Pleasant Valley Mitigation Site: Sterns Creek Riparian Restoration
The Pleasant Valley Wetland Mitigation Site was developed to provide high-quality wetlands to mitigate for impacted wetlands located at the 250 acre Chehalis Industrial Park. ELS designed, permitted, and implemented the construction of the mitigation site, which was completed in two phases. Phase I site work involved grading of 80,000 cubic yards of onsite material…
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NW 38th Avenue Extension: Phases 1-3
Phase 1 of this project consisted of extending NW 38th Avenue, spanning Fisher Creek, a seasonal fish-bearing stream, and impacted just under a half-acre of Fisher Swale, a Category IV wetland associated with Fisher Creek. Phases 2 and 3 included impacting 2.18 acres of wetland and a jurisdictional ditch. The project had to meet design…
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North Coast Business Park
ELS has extensive experience in wetland delineation, functional assessment, and permitting in and around the Park, actively working with Clatsop County and potential North Coast Retail Center tenants addressing wetlands, streams, mitigation, zoning, and other land use issues associated with the site since 2003. We were successful in addressing the requirements of the Consent Decree…
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