5-21 Mitigation

Will the 4 to 5 acres of permanent wetlands that will be filled and altered be restored elsewhere or replicated? Please explain.

RESPONSE 5-21:

 

Invenergy does not anticipate that there will be 4 to 5 acres of permanent wetlands that will need to be filled or altered.  There will be some perimeter wetland impacts on the project site and some biological wetland impacts (i.e. permanent wetlands).  The current estimate for these impacts is approximately one acre in total.  There will be no filling of permanent wetlands on the National Grid ROW.  Invenergy, in coordination with RIDEM and the ACOE, will develop a Wetlands Mitigation Plan to compensate for all unavoidable direct, indirect and secondary wetland impacts from the CREC, as is required by the ACOE.  The plan will include one or more of the following within the affected watershed in the required compensatory mitigation ratios:

  • proposed wetland restoration,
  • creation,
  • enhancement, and/or
  • preservation measures.

                          

RESPONDENT:

 

Mike Feinblatt, ESS Group, Inc.

DATE:

April 28, 2016