Alder Valley

Status

Alder Valley Mitigation Site is located in northern Durham County, NC and will have streams and riparian buffers restored within the Flat River watershed as well as wetland restoration and nutrient offset. There are four different unnamed tributaries with an existing pond called McFarland Lake which will be drained. The site features an existing pond with eroded banks that will be reconstructed to have healthier water flow from the site's streams, degraded wetlands, and an anticipated 200 ft. buffer surrounding the streams to protect against continued erosion and sediment runoff. The purpose of this project site is to mitigate unavoidable losses of wetlands and water through ecological uplift measures. This is a site that is in need of a lot of mitigation work as well as critical habitat restoration.

This project is expected to be constructed in winter of 2023.