Epsilon provided wetland restoration services that were required as part of an enforcement action issued by a local Conservation Commission and ultimately taken over by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).  The enforcement action was issued for the alteration of a significant but undetermined amount of bordering vegetated wetland.

Using a combination of aerial photographic analysis techniques, soil mapping and on-the-ground inspections, Epsilon estimated that approximately 0.75 acres of wetland had been historically altered.  The DEP accepted this estimate and the methodology used by Epsilon to calculate wetland impacts.  The DEP in turn required that the property owner provide a minimum of 0.8 acres of new wetland as mitigation for these impacts.  Using DEP’s Massachusetts Wetland Replication Guidelines Epsilon developed a detailed mitigation plan that was accepted by the DEP and is currently being implemented at the project site.  Epsilon will monitor the success of the mitigation area and provide the DEP with written inspection reports for a period of five years.