ORANGE, VA. – Montebello Mitigation Bank has been approved for achieving ecological performance following Year One monitoring review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District’s Interagency Review Team (IRT).
Centrally located north of Orange County Virginia, the bank is certified to offset unavoidable environmental impacts to streams, wetlands, and riparian areas within its broad watershed area.
With these latest credits ready on the shelf, the Montebello Mitigation Bank continues its restoration and expansion permitting to generate a significant number of mitigation credits over the project’s lifetime. The service area for the bank includes portions of Orange, Madison, Rappahannock Culpeper, Spotsylvania, Prince William, and Stafford Counties.
Once fully restored, Montebello Mitigation Bank will be protected in perpetuity to forever contribute to the ecological integrity of this beautiful and historic region of central Virginia.
Mitigation bank credits are the preferred method of providing compensation for the unavoidable loss of jurisdictional Waters of the United States, including riparian buffers under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act.
Trout Headwaters, Inc., has been tasked with co-management responsibility for the Montebello-Rosse Trust to ensure successful management and compliance for this important project.
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