Environmental Services Inc. was selected to design, restore and construct a network of stream channels comprising an entire watershed on the Blue Creek Basin Stream Mitigation Bank (BCBSMB) property located near Hogansville, Georgia. The permitting of BCBSMB will provide for restoration, enhancement and preservation of approximately 333 riparian buffer acres and approximately 46,662 linear feet of stream channel. BCBSMB contains 3.5 miles of the primary channel of Blue Creek. This represents approximately 80 percent of the entire length of Blue Creek. Fourteen of the first- and second-order tributaries that flow into Blue Creek are also included within BCBSMB. Blue Creek enters the Blue Creek Reservoir as a third- order stream where it merges with Yellowjacket Creek.
Blue Creek Reservoir is a drinking water reservoir for the City of Hogansville. Over the past decade, the reservoir has experienced substantial reductions in the volume capacity due to heavy sediment deposition from Blue Creek and its tributaries. The primary sources of the sediment are channel headcuts in Blue Creek and in nearly all of the tributaries. This project encompasses 90 percent of the stream channels within the Blue Creek watershed that flow into the Blue Creek Reservoir. The City of Hogansville has expressed strong support of this restoration for the obvious water quality value and watershed protection it will provide to the citizens of Hogansville.
BCBSMB is an integral part of a master plan for the Blue Creek basin. The banker has acquired control of 90 percent of the watershed land area associated with BSBSMB. This provides a unique opportunity to influence the nature of land use and sustainable development within the watershed as properties within the watershed land area are developed or transferred to others for development within the immediate area of BCBSMB.
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t is a pleasure to be associated with such a top shelf project. Thanks for everything. You truly should be proud of your work. It has set the bar not only in the region with this restoration but in the industry. ~ Andrew Brown, Green Rustic, LLC
