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BLUEFIELD RANCH MITIGATION BANK EXPANDS MITIGATION CAPACITIES
Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank is proud to announce that South Florida Water Management District has approved a 2.1 million-acre expansion of our Mitigation Service Area (MSA), now 2.8 million acres in total. The new MSA for Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank encompasses portions of St. Lucie, Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Okeechobee, Glades, Indian River and Hendry counties.
Designed, restored and managed at an ecosystem or landscape level, Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank is one of Florida’s most ecologically-diverse banks, with a 2,695-acre ecosystem featuring 21 native plant communities. Sitting astride a “South Florida continental divide”, approximately 60% of the bank is part of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem/Watershed while the remainder of the bank site is part of the St. Lucie River-Eastern Flatwoods/Indian River Lagoon Ecosystem/Watershed.
Within our new state MSA, Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank credits may be used as mitigation for impacts to the a broad range of indigenous native community types within the expanded MSA, including any ecotones and community sub-types or variations associated with these community types.
Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank has an abundant available inventory of freshwater forested and herbaceous wetland credits as a mitigation solution to satisfy permit requirements for impacts to state and federal jurisdictional wetlands, along with listed species mitigation (wood stork, caracara and other species, on a case-by-case basis).
Click on Link to Review Complete Details of the BRMB State MSA
FEDERAL WETLAND MITIGATION CREDITS
Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank’s 2002 Mitigation Bank Instrument (“MBI”) delineates a “Federal MSA” and uniquely grants to Bluefield Ranch Mitigation Bank the right to provide out-of-MSA mitigation through our credits, for linear or non-linear impacts, where we can prove hydrological connectivity to the impact site and ecological equivalency for other environmental features (vegetative, soils, geology, wildlife, etc.). That connectivity and equivalency is precisely what we proved in a 650+ page submission, and what South Florida Water Management District validated, in support of our state MSA expansion. Where federal jurisdiction is established for impacts within any portion of our 2.8 million acre state MSA, we will present the justification for BRMB credits to be used for mitigation, whether to The US Army Corps of Engineers or to FDEP in its “404 assumption” role.
Click Link to View Verification Letter from US Army Corps of Engineers
