» CERCLA Restoration Planning: Bottomland Hardwood Forests Habitat Evaluation

GEE offers support to large industrial chemical manufacturers in compliance with CERCLA actions and resource protection. For this project GEE biologists completed a habitat inventory and evaluation by mapping bottomland hardwood forests in the Tombigbee River, a 400 mile tributary of the Mobile River, which flows through Mississippi and Alabama.  GEE delineated approximately 130 acres of habitat with a handheld global positioning system unit using distinct plant communities as an indicator of habitat type.

GEE’s work was presented to the EPA and natural resource trustees as part of a CERCLA action and NRD claims resolution.  The mapping effort will be used as the basis for future evaluations in the determination of properly weighing remedial actions in the light of protecting ecological communities.

Project Details:
Client: Large Industrial Client
Date: November 2006 - 2007
Location: Tombigbee River, Mobile, Alabama
Size: 130 acres