Stormwater Management and Wetlands
- Grading and Drainage
- Wetlands Layout & Design
- Erosion Control & Stream Bank Protection
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Spring Valley Wetlands Creation Project
Town of Irondequoit, Monroe County, New York
- Conceptual overall site planning.
- Over 700 LF realigned creek / waterway
- Created 0.8 acres new wetland adjacent to an existing U.S. Corp of Engineers regulated wetland.
- Designs included novel ‘coconut log’ bank protection at bends.
- A variety of wetland planting species such as ‘Streamco’ willow, buttonwood, red-osier dogwood, and grey dogwood, stream-side shrub plantings to create shaded areas intended to provide food and shelter of species amphibians, invertebrates, and fish.
- Wetland seed mix varieties included water plantain, mannagrass varieties, soft rush, sedges, asters, bulrush, goldenrod and more.
