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Consultation and Guidance
- Pre-construction Consultation
This initial activity often is overlooked, but is extremely important and enables us to assess site conditions and advise our clients about how to proceed with maximum efficiency. By avoiding or minimizing impacts to wetlands or other sensitive areas prior to finalizing construction plans, our clients can eliminate lengthy delays and realize significant savings in both time and money. Often minor changes to an original set of plans will allow a project to proceed on schedule and can serve clients hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. - Regulatory Process and Permitting
The regulatory process developed around wetlands, streams, archaeological sites, and other sensitive areas can be extremely complex and involve numerous meetings, field visits, and detailed paperwork filings. Often multiple agencies can be involved, each with its own set of requirements. MRW Environmental can handle the process from start to finish for our clients which allows them to concentrate on the project at hand.
Planning and Permitting
The submission of a properly prepared/complete permit application is vital to expeditiously acquire permits required for the start of a project. Project delays from inept or incomplete submissions are common and understandably infuriating to project managers and investors. MRW Environmental LLC takes pride in the quality and completeness of all permit applications submitted.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Permitting (§ 404 and § 10 of Clean Water Act)
- Aquatic Resource Alteration Permitting – (Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation § 401 of Clean Water Act and Tennessee Water Quality Act)
- Preliminary Site Assessments
- Environmental Resource Permitting
- Archaeological Surveys
- Environmental Phase I and Phase II
- National Environmental Policy Act Documentation (i.e., Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements)
- Threatened and Endangered Species Surveys
- Wetland Jurisdictional Determinations
- Wetland Delineations
- Stream Determinations
- Hydrologic Determinations
- Stream Quality Assessment Using the SQT (Stream Quantification Tool)
Aquatic Sampling
Sampling aquatic macroinvertebrates is an effective way to determine the health of a freshwater habitat. The assessment and identification of aquatic macroinvertebrates is important in determining the stream quality and the amount of stream mitigation for a project if unavoidable impacts were to occur or in determining the success of a restoration project.
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Sampling
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Identification
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Analysis
Ecological Restoration
MRW Environmental personnel have decades of experience in all aspects of projects involving wetlands and streams. We provide our clients with comprehensive services from the initial site inspection to processing and obtaining the required permits.
- Stream and Wetland Mitigation Planning
- Stream and Wetland Mitigation Banking
- Stream and Wetland Restoration Design and Oversight
- Stream and Wetland Mitigation Site Monitoring
Training & Courses
MRW Environmental has extensive experience conducting courses for state, federal and private entities on a variety of topics including wetland delineations, wetland functional assessments, wetland plant identification, and aquatic macroinvertebrate sampling and identification. We offer both open enrollment courses and will develop courses specifically tailored to the client’s needs.
- Environmental Courses
- Wetland Training Courses
- Plant Identification Courses
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Courses
Additional Services
In addition to the services discussed above, MRW Environmental offers a vast array of additional services. Below are a few of the more common additional services provided. If you would like to discuss a specific topic or potential service please feel free to contact us to discuss your project at hand and how we may be able to better serve your project goals.
- Wildlife Management Plans
- GIS Analysis
