October 6, 2008
David Flick, Principal and Founder, announces that the firm has successfully completed Clean Water Act permitting for the Schlitterbahn Vacation Village in Kansas City, Kansas. The Section 404/401 permit required avoidance of relatively permanent waters and minimization of impacts to ephemeral streams and adjacent wetlands. The permit process was further complicated due to the presence of critical habitat for two species of snakes determined to be threatened within the State of Kansas and the occurrence of physical structures protected by the National Historic Preservation Act.
Swallow Tail LLC, the firm’s natural resource holding company, will provide off-site mitigation for this project adjacent to the firm’s pending Stranger Creek Wetland and Stream Mitigation Bank located west of Bonner Springs, Kansas. This mitigation provides for the creation, restoration and permanent protection of wetland and stream habitat in compliance with provisional requirements of the Section 404 permit. A conservation easement for the mitigation site will be held by the Midwest Mitigation Oversight Association Inc., a local non-profit conservation business. Improvements will be constructed by Swallow Tail with oversight and monitoring from the scientists and engineers at the Leawood office of Terra Technologies.
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