Review approaches to restoring degraded or impacted wetlands and outline practices to be considered in a restoration project.
Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world. Species of microbes, plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals are part of wetland ecosystems. Physical and chemical features such as climate, topology, geology, and the movement and abundance of water help determine the plant and animal varieties that inhabit each wetland. However, by the 1980’s as much as 50% of the original wetlands resources in the United States had been lost and were disappearing at a rate of approximately 300,000 to 400,000 acres per year.
Wetlands are regulated nationwide through the Clean Water Act Section 404 program, administered through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a number of state and sometimes local regulations. A critical component of the regulatory and permitting process for wetlands is the mitigation of wetland to offset losses due to development or degradation. They are designed to return wetlands from a disturbed or altered condition to the previously existing condition or compensate for the loss. Recent reports have highlighted the high failure rate of mitigation wetlands, with only 30 to 50% of all projects considered successful.
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Charles R. Harman, P.W.S.
Amec Foster Wheeler
- Principal ecologist at Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions
- 30 years as an environmental consultant in the Northeast United States
- Specializes in natural resource related assessment and management activities, including wetlands evaluation, permitting, and mitigation projects, ecological restorations, and biological assessments
- Designed and conducted detailed evaluations of the potential for ecological impacts to wetlands from the implementation of remedial actions, including pump and treat systems
- Obtained wetland permits under the New Jersey Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act and has obtained Nationwide and Individual permits under the Clean Water Section 404 Program in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico in advance of landfill construction and new building activities
- Conducts seminars and teleconferences regularly for Lorman in the areas of wetlands management, ecological restoration, and natural resource damage assessment
- Contributing author to the ITRC Guidance Document on Mitigation Wetlands
- Member of the Standing Ecological Processes Sub-Committee for the New Jersey Science Advisory Board
- M.A. degree in biology; B.S. degree in wildlife ecology
- Can be contacted at 732-302-9500 or [email protected]
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