NJ
Stipson's Island Road
Hydric soils mapping and aerial photography assessment, with Phragmites and Spartina identified across the site. Restoration centred on removal of the tide gate.
01Mid-Atlantic wetland & stream credits
The discipline of a well run business.A passion for the environment.
Evergreen Environmental was formed for the purpose of building wetland and stream mitigation banks. We locate the site, design it, build it, and carry the performance guarantee — across Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
02Why banking
Mitigation banking is the favoured way to compensate for wetland and stream impacts.
Federal policy has moved steadily toward off-site banks and away from in-lieu fee programmes and on-site mitigation. For a permit applicant that means one thing: buying credits from an established bank is usually the fastest, most certain route to an approved permit.
We were formed to build those banks — not to advise from a distance.
03Watershed by watershed
Credits are not fungible. Geography decides.
Approval is granted on a watershed basis, so the bank you buy from has to sit in the right one. Our sites are developed in the Potomac and Rappahannock watersheds in Virginia and on the Delaware Bay in New Jersey.
- VAVirginia
- MDMaryland
- DEDelaware
- PAPennsylvania
- NJNew Jersey
04The banks
Sites we located, designed, built and stand behind.
Wetland and stream mitigation sites developed across three watersheds. Availability changes — call before you plan around a number.
- VAPotomac River Watershed BanksWetland & stream
- VARappahannock Watershed BanksWetland & stream
- NJDelaware Bay BankTidal wetland
05Off-site mitigation
If a bank is not the answer, we carry the whole obligation instead.
For permit applicants with off-site mitigation responsibilities, we take it end to end:
- Site searches and assessment
- Mitigation design and permitting
- Construction and planting management
- Wetland delineations
- Performance monitoring
- Reporting to regulatory authorities
06Who you get
Three partners. Sixty-five years of it.
Delineation, permitting and design; ecological restoration and aquatic ecology; and — unusually for this business — a Chief Underwriting Officer who spent 24 years pricing risk. That last part is why the performance guarantee is not an afterthought.
Worked with
The partners have worked with Airport Authorities, Turnpike Authorities, Departments of Transportation, and commercial and residential developers.
- Airport Authorities
- Turnpike Authorities
- Departments of Transportation
- Commercial Developers
- Residential Developers
From the field
Notes from three sites.
VA
Wetland Restoration, Fauquier County
Beaver activity monitored and managed — uncontrolled, it causes significant damage to planted trees.
VA
Stream Restoration, Northern Virginia
Channel alignment marked in the field using portable GPS.
The partners
James R. Ingram
Partner
Wetland delineation, permitting and design, with a focus on wetland mitigation banking.
Mark Renna
President
Ecological restoration, wetland mitigation banks, permits and aquatic ecology studies.
James R. Holt, Jr.
Partner
A 24-year insurance career — Chief Underwriting Officer and Executive Vice President — brought to bear on the financial assurance side of banking.
If you are in need of credits, talk to us.
Landowners, developers and permit applicants — tell us the watershed and the impact, and we will tell you straight away whether we can help.