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Environmental Geosciences, V. 20, No. 2 (June 2013), P. 53–62.

Copyright copy2013. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Division of Environmental Geosciences. All rights reserved.

DOI:10.1306/eg.01211312012

Wetland and stream mitigation: Application of a resource condition assessment protocol in the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale

Dave Goerman,1 Russ Krauss,2 Dheepa Jayakumar,3 Mark Bernstein4

1400 Market Street 3rd Floor Rachel Carson State Office Building Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101; [email protected]
2Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC 5020 Montrose Boulevard, Suite 201 Houston, Texas 77006; [email protected]
3Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC 5020 Montrose Boulevard, Suite 201 Houston, Texas 77006; [email protected]
4Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC 643 Magazine Street, Suite 301 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; [email protected]

AUTHORS

David S. Goerman, Jr., is a water pollution biologist at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in the Division of Wetlands, Encroachments, and Training, Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands. He is responsible for providing permitting and technical expertise on issues involving waterways, wetlands, floodplains, and stormwater management. Goerman earned a B.S. degree in the biological sciences from Clarion University.

Russell F. Krauss is the vice president of marketing and analysis at Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC. He holds a B.A. degree in geology from Boston University and an MBA degree from the University of Houston. Krauss is the Secretary–Board of Directors and Chair, Marketing Committee, at the National Mitigation Banking Association.

Dheepa Jayakumar is a regional program manager at Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC. She earned a B.S. degree in biology from Houston Baptist University, an M.S. degree in finance and a graduate real estate certificate from the University of Houston.

Mark Bernstein is a development analyst at Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC. He graduated with honors from Northwestern University in 2012 with a B.A. degree in environmental science and economics. He is a member of the inaugural class of Venture for America.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) for support to document and test the proposed aquatic resource compensation protocol. We also thank Bert Laprarie of RES for Geographic Information System analysis.

ABSTRACT

With the exploration and the production of the Marcellus Shale come inevitable unavoidable environmental impacts to the surface of the Earth and associated waters of the United States including wetlands and streams. Environmental impact assessment includes measurement of impacts to aquatic resources, much of which is associated with the production and transportation of Marcellus Shale gas to market. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has prepared a rapid resource condition assessment protocol that will be applied to determine the existing quality of Pennsylvania streams to assess impacts to those streams and to quantify appropriate compensatory mitigation for impacts to these water resources.

This protocol, advanced by the Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, builds on prior work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District and the Unified Stream Methodology of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to provide a consistent and rapid condition assessment for projects to obtain water obstruction and encroachment permits, for water quality certifications, as well as general permits that affect waterways, floodways, and/or floodplains.

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