Wetland mitigation sign

Photo By/Credit

Hollingsworth, John and Karen/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
06/12/2005
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Sign says: ... Wetlands Mitigation, Virginia Power, Mt. Storm Power Station; Authorized by the West Virginia Water Resources Section, Division of Environmental Protection, Virginia Power is constructing a double-lined FGD (scrubber) by-product landfill in a headwater area that contains 8.26 acres of non-contiguous wetlands. The wetlands lost as a result of the FGD by-product landfill will be replaced with the construction of 19.26 acres of equal or better quality mitigation wetlands ...
Subject tags
Wildlife refuges
Wetlands
Wetland restoration
Signs
Habitat conservation
Environmental quality