Kanawha Sapsucker Run Mitigation Bank
Location
Mason County, WV
Resources
Stream, Wetland
Solution
Mitigation Bank
Status
Approved
KANAWHA SAPSUCKER RUN MITIGATION BANK, together with Kanawha Yeager Fork Mitigation Bank, is located in Mason County, West Virginia, near the Ohio river. EIP’s restoration of these two properties focused on slowing and decreasing the rate of erosion, and re-establishing forested riparian buffers. Adding woody materials in the stream and increasing rooting adjacent to the stream has helped produce more bio-geochemical cycling to improve water quality and macroinvertebrate production. This has improved the ecological health of the water ways and land.
To date, EIP has restored six miles of stream and planted more than 56,000 trees in the Kanawha watershed.
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Credit purchases from Kanawha Sapsucker Run Mitigation Bank enable large-scale conservation and restoration of West Virginia’s stream corridors for future generations. These credits 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
– Lower Kanawha (05050008)
Secondary HUC 8 Watersheds
– Elk (05050007)
– Gauley (05050005)
– Greenbrier (05050003)
– Middle New (05050002)
– Lower New (05020004)
– Upper Kanawha (05050006)
– Coal (05050009)
Our Partners
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.
As EIP planned the re-grading and reconstruction of the region’s stream beds, we drew on the locally based construction team at Bluegrass Stream LLC to use natural channel design techniques to help us achieve long-term stream stabilization.