Environmental
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Deer Park, Illinois
A natural landscape composed of wetlands, prairie and savannas is the dominant feature of this Motorola campus, and the driving force for a long-term management plan that will preserve the area's natural attributes indefinitely.
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Environmental
• 69-acre site with cropland, woodlands, meadows and residential lots
• 6.2 acres of pre-development wetlands and "farmed wetlands"
• Wetlands Delineation and Mitigation
• Wetlands Impact Assessment
• Wetlands Permitting
• Wetlands Monitoring/Management Plan
• Onsite Stormwater Treatment Design
• Wetland delineation of non-agricultural areas followed procedures in the Corps of Engineers 1987 Wetland Delineation Manual.
• The U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service was involved in developing a "certified wetland determination" for the agricultural areas.
• An impact assessment documented wetlands impact for the nearby office-research campus.
• A Section 404 permit application (Regional Permit 1) for approximately 1.3 acres of wetlands impacts was prepared for the Corps of Engineers, requiring close coordination with the Corps to expedite permit processing.
• An onsite mitigation plan included construction drawings and specifications for creating 1.34 acres of emergent wetlands, enhancing 2.9 acres of degraded farmed wetlands, and establishing 4.1 acres of native prairie buffer zones.
• Best Management Practices (BMPs) for stormwater quality treatment included a biofilter basin planted with wetland and prairie vegetation.
• A long-term natural areas monitoring and management plan covered wetlands, prairies, savannas and woodlands.
• An extremely tight schedule and the complexities of permitting, mitigation and construction required close coordination and numerous meetings with Motorola's project manager, the Corps of Engineers, and the Village of Deer Park's ecological and landscape consultants. The Corps of Engineers wetlands permit was obtained in just 45 days.
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