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Stream Restoration

Stream Restoration Division


Water & Riverine

Environmental Services, Inc. (ESI) is recognized as a leader in stream restoration design and construction, landscape modeling for watershed and riparian forest restoration, and stream mitigation banking in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi and Maryland.

We offer a superior performance record in the areas of mitigation banks, stream and riparian forest restoration design and design implementation construction. Our performance record is highlighted by innovation where creativity benefits the client's objectives. We begin by attempting to have a thorough understanding of the client's needs and the opportunities and obstacles for the alternatives that are available.

ESI has emerged as the firm with the strongest credentials in stream and wetland design and construction in the Eastern US. Among firms offering Rosgen Natural Channel Design stream restoration services our landscape level systems approach to restoration is unique. The landscape systems approach models the surrounding upland, wetland, and riparian vegetative communities in conjunction with the restoration design of the river channel. We are also unique in offering “design/build” services. Our experienced construction crew directed by our design team provides the greatest possible quality control with the flexibility to make real time improvements in the design and react to the unforeseen. The ESI team exhibits high ethical and professional standing and has the ability to complete work on time and within budget.

To see a complete list of ESI's Stream Restoration experience, click here.

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ESI provides the following services in our Stream Restoration Division:
Natural Channel Design, River and Stream Restoration
Construction and Implementation of River Restoration
Fisheries and Pond Management

*ESI does not provide engineering or land surveying services in North Carolina and such services in North Carolina are contracted to appropriately licensed individuals and firms.

Steve Jones

Steven M. Jones, Ph. D.
Vice President and Director of Stream Restoration

Dr. Jones has 34 years experience as a vegetation and landscape ecologist specializing in the areas of natural stream morphology restoration, landscape modeling, ecological land classification, vegetation ecology, soils, and forest wetland ecology.
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Phone: (770) 736-9101
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On behalf of everyone in the Chesapeake Bay Field Office, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your partnership during the past year. Your support for our fish and wildlife programs is essential to conserve and restore important plant and animal communities, and the habitats on which they rely. Your collaboration increases our conservation effectiveness. We look forward to a long and continued partnership to protect living resources and their habitats within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
~ John Wolflin, Field Supervisor, United States Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service