Wetlands, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Topics: Environment | Hiring an Expert
Wal-Mart often submits a plan that calls for wetlands to be destroyed, and replicated somewhere else. Citizens groups should insist that whatever design has been submitted, it be reworked to avoid the wetland area completely. It may also be necessary for the citizens group to either hire a hydrologist to “delineate” the wetlands—which means to map exactly where it is—or ask the town to require the developer to have the wetland delineated by an independent contractor. If your site has wetlands on it, you definitely want to retain a hydrologist to stop any development in the wetlands area. Local Conservation Commissions, which go by various names in different parts of the country, are generally the board that determines what happens to wetlands.
