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Wetland enhancement definition

Wetland enhancement means intentional actions taken to improve the functions, processes, and values of existing wetlands.
Wetland enhancement means to improve the condition and increase the functions and values of an existing degraded wetland.
Wetland enhancement means the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a wetland site to heighten, intensify or improve specific functions or to change the growth state or composition of the vegetation present. Enhancement is undertaken for specified purposes such as water quality improvement, flood water retention or wildlife habitat. Wetland enhancement activities typically consist of planting vegetation, controlling nonnative or invasive species, modifying site elevations or the proportion of open water to influence hydroperiods or some combination of these. Wetland enhancement results in a change in some wetland functions and can lead to a decline in other wetland functions, but does not result in a gain in wetland acres. Wetland enhancement can result in a change of wetland class or wetland category or both.

Examples of Wetland enhancement in a sentence

  • Wetland enhancement and creation projects can be planned to mimic features of a particular setting to im- prove certain functions.

  • Wetland enhancement as selected in the J.D. Murphree WMA would result in a net improvement to about 600 acres of existing wetland habitat.

  • Typical forms of environmental augmentation include:  Direct augmentation to streams, rivers or other surface water bodies, Indirect augmentation to surface water bodies which includes infiltration to adjacent soils allowing flows to meander into the substrate groundwater or into actual surface flows, Aquifer recharge, and Wetland enhancement.

  • Wetland enhancement work began in 2008 in the East Phase of the bank.

  • Wetland enhancement or restoration not associated with any other development proposal may be allowed if accomplished according to a plan for its design, implementation, maintenance and monitoring prepared by and carried out under the direction of a qualified professional.

  • Wetland enhancement generally does not include wetland conversion, unless the purpose of the conversion is to return the wetland to known pre-disturbance conditions AND also represents a net increase in wetland function.

  • Wetland enhancement – The manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a wetland (undisturbed or degraded) site to heighten, intensify, or improve specific function(s) or to change the growth stage or composition of the vegetation present.Enhancement is undertaken for specified purposes such as water quality improvement, flood water retention, or wildlife habitat.

  • Wetland enhancement of the areas surrounding the log ponds will improve habitat along the former log ponds and enhance the asthetic value.

  • Wetland enhancement to improve function of a degraded wetland with no gain in habitat area.• Can include construction, repair, or removal of engineered works tomanipulate water levels and flows, removing invasive species, revegetation & translocation.

  • Wetland enhancement is the modification of a wetland to produce conditions that did not previously exist.


More Definitions of Wetland enhancement

Wetland enhancement means to improve the condition and increase the
Wetland enhancement means the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a wetland site to heighten, intensify, or improve specific function(s) or to change the growth stage or composition of the vegetation present. Enhancement is undertaken for specified purposes such as water quality improvement, flood water retention, or wildlife habitat.
Wetland enhancement means the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a wetland site to heighten, intensify, or improve specific function(s) or to change the growth stage or composition of the vegetation present.
Wetland enhancement means actions taken to intentionally improve the wetland functions, processes and values of existing but degraded wetlands where all three defining criteria are currently met (i.e., hydrology, vegetation and soils).
Wetland enhancement means to improve the condition and increase the functions and/or values of an
Wetland enhancement means a type of mitigation performed to improve the condition of existing degraded wetlands so that the functions and values provided are of a higher quality. [Ord. 1170B, 2000; Ord. 1157, 1998; Ord. 1150A, 1996; Ord. 1150 §2, 1996]

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