Case Study: York Haven Fishway

Case Study: York Haven Fishway

For over 120 years, the York Haven Hydroelectric Station Dam stood across the Susquehanna River, generating power for surrounding communities. But it also prevented American shad and blueback herring from migrating to their historic spawning grounds in upstate...
What Is Environmental Excavation?

What Is Environmental Excavation?

You may already be familiar with excavation — the process of removing soil, rock, and debris to prepare land for construction work. In environmental excavation, often the goal is to remove contaminated soil or reshape land and waterways to restore natural systems. For...
Case Study: Little Chiques Creek

Case Study: Little Chiques Creek

As part of the eastern boundary of the borough of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, the Little Chiques Creek also surrounds a 24-acre municipal park, forming a slow-moving, horseshoe-shaped oxbow section of stream. This portion of the creek had been modified in the past with a...
Case Study: Santo Domingo Creek

Case Study: Santo Domingo Creek

Rock Lititz in northern Lancaster County, PA, is a music-focused commercial campus, home to some of the entertainment industry’s biggest names in stage production. Recently, an adjacent 96-acre farm was purchased to expand the campus’s 108 acres. Before expansion...
6 Ways Green Infrastructure Improves Urban Life

6 Ways Green Infrastructure Improves Urban Life

The public’s awareness of green infrastructure is growing, thanks in part to better understanding the effects that urbanization has on our health and that of our planet. Now, instead of “gray” infrastructure (pipes, roads, and concrete channels) being the only...