Project Summary
Timmons Group worked with the Southampton County Industrial Development Authority in the development of a sustainable industrial park concept project which blended environmental and industrial co development. The project included the development of a 254 acre industrial park, known as Turner Tract (provide link to the Turner Tract Onsite Mitigation), to support Southampton County’s growing economy as well as create the Cheroenhaka Wetland and Stream Mitigation Bank on the adjacent 238 acre portion of the project site. The project site has been historically altered to promote a hydrologic regime conducive to agricultural production with site manipulations including stream channelization and drain tiling. These landscape modifications have lowered the water table elevation over much of the site creating upland departures in areas of former wetlands. The Cheroenhaka Mitigation Bank includes approximately 42 acres of wetland creation/restoration and the restoration/enhancement of approximately 12,000 linear feet of stream in the Nottoway River watershed. In addition, the project will include the preservation of 34 acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands and over 100 acres of adjacent, forested upland buffers. Based on the species composition of the existing onsite wetlands and the Coastal Plain geographic location, the onsite wetland creation is anticipated to provide habitat opportunities for rare woody species including Bald Cypress, Water Tupelo, and Overcup Oak.