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Do You Really Need to Hire a Contractor with Stream Restoration Experience?

Phillip Todd
North State Environmental
Winston Salem, NC

The practice of stream restoration continues to grow as a preferred Best Management Practice to reduce Total Maximum Daily Load requirements. The goal of stream restoration is to restore, as dictated by management goals and objectives, a stream’s pattern, dimension, and profile in order to achieve the greatest ecological uplift to a degraded stream. The ability to restore a stream channel and associated floodplain is dependent upon the designer’s knowledge and understanding of why the stream system exhibits instabilities.

Government and non-profit entities utilize a rigorous process to select the design firm for a project, but what about the construction? If so much time, energy and effort are used to select an accomplished stream design staff, wouldn’t the contracting entity want to secure the same knowledge and understanding in its stream restoration contractor?

This presentation will demonstrate the importance of hiring an experience contractor to implement a stream restoration project. Helpful tips and examples will be provided to assist contracting entities to justify and implement a pre-qualification process.

About Phillip Todd

Phillip Todd is the Project Development Coordinator for North State Environmental. He has a BS in Biology and a Master of Public Administration. His broad knowledge base of environmental science, engineering concepts, and policy has allowed him to assist numerous clients with designing, permitting, and constructing stream restoration project over the past 26 years. He has completed numerous pre-qualifications forms and request for qualifications in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions.