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A Free Critical Areas Forecast Report for each property

This report inlcuds:

-Documented forecast of all critical areas on the site

-Written assessment with percentage of project success likely hood, permit pathway, and estimated cost…beginning-to-end

-Detailed review of all relevant online databases

Mitigation Planning for Wetland Permitting
Fisher Ferndale Phased Offsite Mitigation, Whatcom County, WA

Mitigation Site within the Landscape

Headwater wetland construction with direct connection to Slater Slough & its downstream tributaries & waterbodies

  • Slater Slough – Smugglers Slough – Lummi River – Lummi Bay – Salish Sea

Important ecological functions & lift for sensitive downstream environments

  • Lummi River
  • Frequently Flooded Area Inundated by 100 Year Flooding HCA 1a Shoreline of Significance
  • Fish HCA
  • Lummi Bay
  • HCA 2 State & Federal Listed Species Have a Primary Association
  • HCA 3 Habitats & Areas Associated with a State Priority Species
  • HCA 4 Commercial & Recreational Shellfish Areas
  • HCA 5 Eelgrass Beds
  • HCA 6 Herring Spawning

Directly abuts a diked portion of the Nooksack River

  • HCA 1a Shoreline of Significance & Fish HCA
  • HCA 2 State & Federal Listed Species Have a Primary Association
  • Including, but not limited to, Peregrine Falcons, Cavity Nesting Ducks, Waterfowl Concentrations, Bald Eagles, Swans, & Sandhill Cranes

Benefits of Headwater Wetland Construction

  • Water Quality Functions
  • Filter pollutants, thus decreasing nutrients & removing/reducing sediment loads from agriculture within the contributing watershed
  • Water Quantity/Hydrologic Functions
  • Provide storage to reduce peak flows & erosion
  • Habitat/Ecological Functions
  • Increase habitat for raptors, waterfowl, wetland associated birds, & aquatic invertebrates
  • Increase native plant richness
  • Increase corridor connectivity to the Nooksack River, Slater Slough, Smugglers Slough, Lummi River, & Lummi Bay
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July 2016
November 2019

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