Abstract
 North Carolina's Geodatabase for Statewide Stream and Wetland Mitigation Track: Environmental Management Author(s): Colleen Kiley In 2003, North Carolina instituted an innovative statewide program to provide stream and wetland mitigation called the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP). From its inception, this award winning program relied heavily upon GIS as a tool to assist in watershed planning, project implementation, and site monitoring. As a new state program, the EEP needed to build a complex GIS from scratch that would allow tracking of spatial features associated with stream and wetland mitigation sites from planning through monitoring and could interface with other databases within the agency. The result is a Geodatabase that is used throughout EEP in every stage of the mitigation process. With the help of its GIS, EEP has restored, enhanced, or protected over one million feet of stream and over nine thousand acres of wetlands in three years. Colleen Kiley NC DENR NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program 2728 Capital Blvd. Suite 1H 103 Raleigh , NC 27604 US Phone: 919-715-0975 E-mail: Colleen.kiley@ncmail.net |
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