D&K provides comprehensive environmental services and strategies to protect the environment through avoidance, minimization, or mitigation of project impacts to natural resources. Our teams include professional wetland scientists, aquatic and terrestrial biologists, botanists, geologists, field naturalists, hydrologists, and NEPA and permitting specialists supported by civil, structural, and hydraulic engineers, surveyors, landscape architects, and construction phase…
A recently completed Hazard Mitigation Plan identified flooding as a high risk for the County. Since 1996, approximately 50 flooding events occurred in the County, including flooding from an ice jam in January 2018 and heavy rainfall in August 2018. As a JV team partner, D&K conducted a Supplemental Watershed Plan and Environmental Document (Plan-ED) for…
VTrans prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Bennington Bypass project and needed assistance creating a Final EIS. Following the completion of the FEIS by D&K, VTrans engaged D&K to design a wetland mitigation site and to assist in the documentation and preparation of permit applications associated with the construction of approximately 10…
The Hooksett Hydroelectric Project includes a 1.6 MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation dam that is a barrier to aquatic organism passage (AOP), including Blueback Herring, American Eel, and American Shad. D&K worked closely with officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regarding the details of the design,…
To address impacts from large truck traffic along Main Street/VT 22A in downtown Vergennes, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) commissioned a Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study to review options to divert truck traffic around the city. VT 22A carries approximately 750 trucks per day through the urban center. Serving as part of a…
The Town of Enfield sought to develop a Non-Native Invasive Species Management Plan to control the non-native, invasive, terrestrial and aquatic plant species in the area. The objectives of the project included the maintenance of ecological integrity in Enfield and public education and outreach across New Hampshire. D&K developed field inventory methods and maps to…
The Town of Raymond sought services to map and evaluate wetlands for groundwater protection and water-quality functions. D&K identified 17 priority wetlands and used the 2015 “Method for Inventorying and Evaluating Freshwater Wetlands in New Hampshire” for flood storage, groundwater, and sediment trapping functions.
The US Forest Service sought to expand their supervisor’s office and relocate from downtown Rutland to be closer to forest resources in the Green Mountain National Forest. Under successive contracts, D&K worked with the Forest Service, regulators, and other stakeholders to develop site design concepts, survey the area, identify natural resources, secure permitting, and provide…
Following the inception of Vermont’s Three-Acre Stormwater Rule, schools throughout Vermont needed to adapt their campuses to manage stormwater in accordance with Vermont Stormwater General Permit 3-9050. To help schools successfully manage these challenges, D&K has provided engineering and environmental services for feasibility studies and the design of stormwater improvements for five schools. The projects…