•Site Selection Analysis and Due Diligence
Critical Constraints Analysis and Issues Identification
•Avoidance, Minimization, Mitigation Strategies
Permit, Application Development and Technical Support
Agency Consultation and Coordination
Expert Testimony and Technical Support
•Bald And Golden Eagle Protection Act
•Clean Water Act Sections 401, 402, 404 & 408
•Coastal Zone Management Act
•Endangered Species Act
•Federal Power Act
•Fish & Wildlife Coordination Act
•Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act
•National Historic Preservation Act
•National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permits
•Rivers and Harbors Act
•Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
•State and Local Natural Resource Related Regulations
•Categorical Exclusion Documentation
•Environmental Assessments/Finding of No Significant Impact
•Environmental Impact Assessments
•Agency Consultation and Public Outreach
•Mitigation Planning and Monitoring
•Environmental Documentation
•Third Party Technical Reviews
•FERC Licensing Strategy and Process Management
•FERC Resource Report Development
•Development of Comprehensive Plans
•Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species Study Plans and Biological Assessments
•Critical Review Of Comprehensive Plans, Biological Opinions, Study Reports
•FERC License Compliance Management
•Environmental Permit Compliance Tracking
•Document Preparation and Management
•Settlement Negotiation
•Expert Witness Testimony
•Construction Compliance with Permit Conditions
•Support for Recreational/Historic and Archeological Studies
•Environmental Due Diligence for Facility Sale/Acquisition
•Fisheries Mitigation
•Construction and Post-Construction Monitoring
•Wetland Mitigation Monitoring
•Erosion and Sedimentation Monitoring
•Fish Identification, Stomach and Tissue Sampling and Analysis
•Quality Assurance Programs
•Monitoring For Water Quantity/Quality Concerns
•Turbine/Spillway Passage Survival, Injury, and Entrainment
•Turbine Operational Modifications
•Fish Passage Evaluations
•Monitoring Designated Critical Habitat Wildlife Species Or Plant Communities
•Fish and Amphibian Salvage and Relocation
•Fish Distribution and Abundance Evaluations
•Freshwater Mussel Monitoring
•Mark-Recapture and Survivorship Studies
•Mitigation Planning and Monitoring
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•Fish Collection and Characterization
•Fisheries Acoustic Studies
•Migratory Fish Biology, Behavior, and Restoration
•Fish Population Studies and Modeling
•Fish Passage Facility Operation Services
•Biotelemetry
•Population Modeling
•Fish Salvage and Relocation Efforts
•Fish Scale Age and Growth Analysis
•Hydroacoustics
•Freshwater Mussel Population Survey and Species Identification
•USFWS Qualified Mussel Surveyors
•Survey Plan Negotiation and Development
•State Approved Mussel Surveyors
•Biological Assessments
•Salvage, Relocation and Long-Term Monitoring
•Scientific Diving Management and Oversight
•Navigable Waters Surveys
•CWA 316(b) Freshwater Mussel Studies
•Section 7 Consultations
•Pipeline, Bridge, and Railroad Crossings
•Construction Monitoring
•Water Withdrawal
•Outfall Evaluations
•Expert Testimony
•Essential Fish Habitat Biological Studies
•Instream Flow (IFIM) Assessments
•Aquatic Ecology Assessment
•High Resolution Bathymetry
•Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Surveys
•Habitat Suitability Index Modeling
•Scientific Diving
•Habitat Mapping, Modeling and Hydrologic Alteration Studies
•Coastal, Estuarine and Marine Ecosystem Surveys
•Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Planning and Design
•Reservoir Fluctuation and Shoreline Assessments
•Stream Rapid Bioassessments
•Hydro Industry-Certified Snorkel Teams
•Acoustic Hydrology using Acoustic Doppler Technology
•Benthic Surveys
•Water Quality Sampling and Monitoring
•Water Quality Assessment and Modeling
•Water Quality Assessment and Modeling
•Water Supply Planning and Studies (Quantity and Availability)
•Vibracor Sampling
•Contaminated Sediment Assessments
•Dredge Plume Monitoring
•Erosion and Sediment Transport Evaluations
•Sediment Profile Camera Benthic Surveys
•Sediment Sampling, Testing, and Analysis
•Dredging and Disposal Analysis and Permitting
•SCUBA Certified Divers
•Advanced Diver, Rescue Diver, and Certified Dive Masters
•U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Boat Captains
•Transportation Worker Identification Credential Security Clearance
•Conformance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.401 Subpart T
•Entrainment Sample Identification
•Fish Identification, Stomach and Tissue Sampling and Analysis
•Credentialed Taxonomists
•Freshwater, Estuarine, and Marine Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Algae, and Periphyton, Identification and Analysis
•Ichthyoplankton, Zooplankton, and Phytoplankton Identification
•Benthic Invertebrates, Algae, and Periphyton Identification
•Laboratory Processing, Data Capture and Analysis, Project Reporting and Mapping
•Long Term Environmental Monitoring Database Management
•Quality Assurance Program
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•Botanical and Aquatic Plant Surveys
•Plant Community Evaluation and Mapping
•Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species
•Wetland Delineation
•Functions and Values Assessments
•Stream and Riparian Habitat Assessment and Mitigation
•Aerial Photointerpretation and Mapping
•Vernal Pool Identification and Documentation
•Rapid Bioassessments
•Wetland Impact Assessment
•Impact Mitigation
•Stream and Riparian Habitat Assessment and Mitigation
•Compensatory Mitigation and Habitat Restoration
•Watershed Evaluation
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•Acoustic Tools – ARIS/DIDSON, Bathymetric Surveys, Mobile & Fixed Hydroacoustic Monitoring
•High Resolution Bathymetry
•Hydroacoustic Remote Sensing
•Side Scan Sonar Surveys
•Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling
•Biotelemetry
•Instream Flow Incremental Methodology
•System For Environmental Flow Analysis
•PHABSIM
•1-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling (PHABSIM)
•2-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling (River2D)
•Development of Habitat Suitability Criteria
•Fish Passage Assessment
•Complex database design, data management, and statistical analyses
•Database QA/QC
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•Over 50 years of FERC licensing and relicensing projects, achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance, and optimizing facility performance.
•More than 200 hydropower project sites nationwide, including conventional, pumped storage, and hydrokinetic facilities, on large and small river systems, in urban and remote locations.
•Our patented Hi-Z Turb’N Tag® fish recapture technology has revolutionized fish injury and survival in passage through turbines and spillways.
•Fish passage and biotelemetry assessments of American Shad, river herring, Sturgeon, Salmon, and American Eel throughout the US including nine major river systems just on the east coast.
•Fish passage and biotelemetry assessments of American Shad, river herring, Sturgeon, Salmon, and American Eel throughout the US including nine major river systems just on the east coast.
•Our highly qualified scientists have worked together for longer than 25 years, providing high-caliber technical capabilities.
•Highly qualified personnel and a full suite of field sampling equipment, including vessels, vibracores, gravity cores and grab samplers; Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP); global positioning system (GPS) technology and GIS services; and biological sample analysis.
•Sediment survey equipment for analytical testing, pre- and post-dredge surveys, beneficial use studies, including barge-mounted and portable vibracores, Peterson and Ponar® grabs, gravity corers, hand corers and augers. Capable of sampling in deep or shallow water, lakes, rivers, or bays, lagoons/impoundments, wetlands, and tidal flats.
•Capacity to quickly mobilize and deploy multiple field crews to fit the needs of the project.
•Extensive in-house staff expertise with rare, threatened and endangered species including freshwater mussels, bats, wildlife, fish, plants and other species.
•The largest specialized laboratory facilities for processing freshwater and marine samples.
•Expert witnesses and peer reviewers for developers, construction and contracting firms, and transportation agencies.