Stream Mitigation

Page last updated 07/24/2008

STREAM MITIGATION GUIDELINES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Regulatory Authorities and Guidelines
3. Types of Permits That May Require Stream Mitigation
4. Terminology
5. Mitigation Requirements
6.Selection of Mitigation Sites
7. Mitigation Plans and Scheduling
8. Buffer Widths & Riparian Restoration
9. Easements and Holding Mitigation Sites
10. Flexible Stream Mitigation
     A. Urban Watershed Management
     B. Other Approaches
11. Monitoring

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Cover Page

Appendices linked below:

Appendix I - Stream Habitat Designation Criteria (updated October 2006)

Appendix II - Evaluation criteria for mitigation sites.

Appendix III - NC Ecoregion map

Appendix IV - 8-Digit HUC map

Appendix V - Stream Channel Mitigation Planning Checklist

Appendix VI - Bank full hydraulic geometry relationships for NC

Appendix VII - Rosgen stream classification for NC

Appendix VIII - web links

NC Maps & Data

NC Wildlife Commission River Basin Habitat Classifications

(Mixed temperature habitats)

Broad map - data

Catawba map - data

Hiwassee map - data

Yadkin map - data

French-Broad map - data

Little Tennessee map - data

Roanoke map - data

New map - data

(All cold water habitats)

Savannah map - data

Watauga map - data

(All warm water habitats)

Cape Fear data

Chowan data

Lumber data

Neuse data

Pasquotank data

Tar-Pamlico data

White Oak data

Maps are in PDF format.

Data is in Shapefile GIS format.

(Disclaimer: Please note that maps and data are provided for planning purposes for our stakeholders and the Corps cannot warrant their accuracy nor completeness.

Need to make a preliminary assessment of stream quality? Check out Stream Quality Assessment Worksheet (8/2003 version).

Guidance for Special Projects

Determining Appropriate Stream Mitigation Credit for Dam Removal Projects

put in final version from 2008 updates

2/13/2008 - A revised version (Version 7.1) is available for public review and comment. This guidance was developed cooperatively by: US Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District; US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4; US Fish and Wildlife Service; NC Division of Water Quality; NC Wildlife Resources Commission; and NC Division of Water Resources.

Stream Restoration Guidance for the Outer Coastal Plain (PDF)12/1/05

Stream Mitigation Guidelines - April 2003

A workgroup, consisting of representatives from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District (District), North Carolina Division of Water Quality (DWQ), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV (EPA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC), prepared The Stream Mitigation Guidelines to have joint and consistent, District and DWQ stream mitigation guidance for the regulated community of North Carolina.

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