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Great Pee Dee Mitigation Bank

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Total Acres

1,094

Project Year

2023

 
Located in Mason & Dillon Counties, SC

The goal of the Great Pee Dee mitigation banking project is to preserve, enhance and restore streams and wetlands associated with the Great Pee Dee River, Mill Creek and Poccosin Swamp. Specific goals of the Bank include, but are not limited to:

  • Preserve existing functional stream channels that connect hydrology and ecology within the Great Pee Dee River, Mill Creek and Poccosin Swamp watersheds and floodplains.
  • Increase the hydraulic and geomorphological functionality of Mill Creek.
  • Increase hydrological functionality through the removal of manmade impediments including a piped road crossing and a diversion ditch.
  • Establish more natural hydroperiods, hydrodynamics, and vegetative communities in wetland enhancement areas.
  • Preserve existing forested wetlands that provide filtration of floodwaters and habitat corridors within the floodplain of the Great Pee Dee River.
  • Improve connectivity and naturalize hydraulics for biocomplexity.
  • Enhance aquatic resource buffers and provide protected habitat corridors by preserving and establishing natural hardwood communities.

Unique Places to Save’s services of ensuring good financial stewardship of the endowment funds will enable perpetual maintenance of the mitigation banking components.

 

Mitigation Partner

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Our Role

Endowment Fund Manager

Mitigation Type

Wetland & Stream Mitigation

About the Authormichael scisco

Michael brings nearly 20 years of experience to his role as Conservation Director at Unique Places to Save. He has worked to conserve over 200,000 acres across the U.S. while securing over $200M in funding and transacting $500M in land and other real estate.

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