Stream Mitigation Guidance, Handbooks, Procedures and Protocols

Across the United States, state and federal agencies, tribes, local government and private sources are working to develop guidance for the mitigation of streams and compensatory mitigation. The following list of resources provides an array of these documents, demonstrating not only the current state of practice, but also the diversity of approaches being employed in different regions of the country.

Arkansas

• Arkansas Little Rock District Stream Method (Revised) (Borrowed from Mobile District Method)

California

• California Coastal Wetland Mitigation Guidance

Florida

• Florida Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method (UMAM)

Georgia

• Georgia Stream Mitigation Guidance
  

Illinois

• Illinois Stream Mitigation Guidance

• Illinois Stream Mitigation Method

Mississippi

• Vicksburg District Modified Charleston Method

Missouri

• Missouri Method (in place since 2007)

• State of Missouri Stream Mitigation Method (MO, IA)

Montana

• Montana - Omaha District, Montana Stream and Wetland Mitigation Procedure

North Carolina

• North Carolina Stream Restoration Handbook (2003)

• North Carolina - Wilmington District SOP, Stream Mitigation Guidelines (2003)

• North Carolina Stream Mitigation Guidelines (2003)

Oregon

• Oregon Stream Mitigation Framework

• Oregon Removal-Fill Guide, Chapter 8

South Carolina

• South Carolina Compensatory Mitigation Guidelines (2010)

Tennessee

• Tennessee Stream Mitigation Guidelines

Virginia

• Virginia Unified Stream Methodology (2007)

Washington

• Requiring or Recommending Mitigation

• Interagency Regulatory Guide

West Virginia

• West Virginia Stream and Wetland Mitigation Metric 2.0

Wyoming

• Wyoming Corps Stream Mitigation Procedure – Omaha District, Regulatory Office

Other Documents

• Arizona Streambank Stabilization Management Measures Document     

• EPA Stream Assessment and Mitigation Protocols (2010)

• Wetland and Stream Mitigation: A Handbook for Land Trusts

• USACE Manual for Delineation of OHW in the Arid West (2008)

• USACE Stream and Coastal Mitigation Guidelines (2004)

• USDA NRCS – Stream Restoration Design (2008)