Section 350.05. Planning for a mitigation project.

 

(1)  Mitigation projects may involve one or a combination of techniques including restoration, enhancement or creation of wetlands. Restoration is the preferred technique.

(2)  When practicable, compensatory mitigation should result in a project with a similar plant community type to the wetland being impacted.

(3)  Unless the wetland impacted by the permitted activity is a deep marsh or a shallow open water community, creation of ponds or deepwater habitats as a mitigation project may not be accepted by the department.

(4)  When practicable, compensation sites may not rely on structures that require active maintenance and management.

(5)  Compensation sites shall include a zone of vegetated upland adjacent to the wetland that the department determines is adequate to filter run-off entering the wetland.

History: CR 00-164 : cr. Register January 2002 No. 553 , eff. 2-1-02.