Brushy Fork Mitigation Bank
Location
Harrison County, WV
Resource
Stream, Wetland
Solution
Mitigation Bank
Status
Approved
BRUSHY FORK MITIGATION BANK is located in the West Fork watershed of rural Harrison County, West Virginia. EIP acquired 2,000 acres in 2016, and completed restoration on 8.8 miles of streams and 13.4 acres of wetlands in 2020. The property’s wetlands and streams had been disturbed by legacy mining, logging, and grazing practices that had removed riparian buffers, incised streams, eroded banks, increased sedimentation, and altered wetland hydrology. EIP’s restoration has reconnected streams to their floodplains, enhanced wetlands, increased habitat, decreased sediment loads, and expanded benthic communities — improving functions of downstream waters and the overall hydrologic functions of the watershed.
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Credit purchases from Brushy Fork Mitigation Bank support a diverse range of projects in West Virginia, including road construction, mining, and public infrastructure.
CREDITS
Stream or Wetland
SERVICE AREA
Primary HUC 8 Watershed
– West Fork (05020002)
Secondary HUC 8 Watersheds
– Upper Monongahela (05020003)
– Tygart Valley (05020001)
– Middle Ohio North (05030201)
– Little Kanawha (05030203)
Our Partners
Stream Restoration Specialists, based in Corbin, Kentucky, is one of the best stream builders in the industry. EIP has worked on multiple projects with SRS’s expert construction team. Their team members from a range of backgrounds, including former road builders, coal miners, and self-taught stream contractors, are efficient, self-sufficient, and top-notch with project logistics and scheduling. Working in tandem with both EIP and Beaver Creek Hydrology, SRS’s stream building expertise takes design concepts and turns them into reality.
Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc. partnered with EIP’s national team, applying their regional expertise in stream ecology, design, and permitting to multiple mitigation banks we developed together across West Virginia.