New Credits Just Released for Montebello Mitigation Bank

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).

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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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Restoration Work Drives Significant Mitigation Credit Release

Montebello Mitigation Bank has been approved for additional release of more than 600 stream credits by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District’s Interagency Review Team (IRT) for work completed and success achieved to date on the project.

If your project requires offset for unavoidable impacts to Waters of the U.S. or requires approvals under the VA Department of Environmental Quality, be sure to check the new interactive Geographic Service Area map or Contact Us for credit availability.

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The Efforts On Stream Erosion Prevention and Mitigation Banks

Mitigation banks continue to support much-needed offset for unavoidable impacts to our Nation’s streams, but are we deploying the best methods for restoration of stream banks and enhancement of riparian areas?

According to the 2008 Mitigation Rule, All restoration and/or enhancement measures should be designed with the goal of improving integrity, habitat, and water quality using the most passive, least invasive techniques available.

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In places like the Upper Yellowstone River watershed in Montana and elsewhere across the U.S., increasing flood frequency and duration are causing traditional bank stabilization and rechannelization efforts to fail wholly and catastrophically. 

Trout Headwaters, Inc. (THI) recently published an article describing one example of a proven approach to reducing excess streambank erosion and restoring stream buffers that is lower-cost, lower-risk, and sustainable.

The Effects of Hardening the Artery – Rivers and Riprap by THI

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Mitigation Banking – Working to Reverse Environmental Destruction

The continued growth of mitigation banking represents the very real potential that environmental destruction can be reversed. The Montebello Mitigation Bank is such an example, restoring, enhancing and preserving in-perpetuity, streams and riparian buffers across more than 513 acres.

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Montebello Mitigation Bank Tearsheet

Over the long term, buying credits in a mitigation bank is generally less costly than permittee-responsible efforts, particularly when the cost of the additional permitting process is added to the construction and other tasks.  Moreover, mitigation requirements including establishing protective easements and long-term monitoring/reporting can prove costly and time-consuming for those wishing to do the mitigation themselves.

Investopedia explores mitigation banking in a smart, concise piece about the system of credits and debits devised to ensure that ecological loss to wetlands, streams and species is compensated for by the restoration and preservation of wetlands, streams and natural habitats, in other areas so that there is no net loss to the environment. To mitigate means to reduce the severity of something, in this case, the damage caused to the environment.

“According to National Environmental Banking Association (NEBA), mitigation banking is defined as “the restoration, creation, enhancement, or preservation of a wetland, stream, or other habitat area undertaken expressly for the purpose of compensating for unavoidable resource losses.”

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