Princeton Hydro has extensive experience and expertise in the permitting aspects of development projects with respect to federal, state and local regulatory agency compliance. Our expertise in environmental permitting, jurisdictional assessments and compliance review stems directly from our staffs educational background and experience in wetland science, environmental science, ecology, geology, hydrology and environmental engineering. Through our projects, Princeton Hydro has acquired comprehensive familiarity with pertinent administrative and policy directives of regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. We are especially well versed in permit related issues pertaining to wetland and wetland transition areas, endangered species, stormwater management, water quality management, waterfront development and water allocation.

Our environmental permitting capabilities are greatly facilitated by the thorough incorporation of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology into virtually all such projects and the integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology into our bathymetric surveys and aquatic resource sampling activities. The combined use of GIS and GPS enables us to accurately locate and map sensitive environmental features, unique site attributes or sampling locations.

Our comprehensive familiarity with requirements of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act and other pertinent legislation has enabled us to rapidly develop studies ideally structured to meet regulatory agency objectives as well as to convincingly respond to issues of public concern. Creative restoration and mitigation plans have emerged as a result of many of these permitting projects, often becoming critical to the project’s successful planning, design and construction.