Environmental Reviews

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Bolton & Menk, Inc. has the expertise to handle all of your environmental review needs. As an experienced and diversified firm, we offer a broad range of environmental review services including cultural resources and archeological studies. We can help guide you through the environmental review process, whether it is for a municipal, state or federally funded project. Our goal is to provide exceptional quality environmental review services while meeting project budgets and schedules.

Environmental Reviews, if timely and detailed, are beneficial to communities and organizations because they provide all permitting agencies involved with common information during the course of a specific project. These pragmatic and essential reviews help a client determine whether the project should proceed to later phases in the design and development process.

Bolton & Menk has provided these services for many satisfied public and private clients. Through educational forums such as Environmental Review Seminars, Bolton & Menk is able to facilitate discussion and familiarize clients to this process. In addition, we have developed professional relationships with key permitting agency staff, which helps streamline and focus the environmental review process.

The following is a list of each Environmental Review type. Please click on the link for a detailed description and examples of our related project experience.

FORMS OF REVIEW

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

Alternative Urban Area-wide Review (AUAR)

QUALITY CONSULTING

Bolton & Menk can help you by:

Facilitating communications and consensus building with public review agencies.
Identifying unique site features that you may want to preserve or avoid.
Providing expert knowledge and opinions to enhance and address any issues or concerns throughout the review process.
Identifying and gathering information that may be necessary for permitting.
Addressing the cultural resources including historic and/or archeological aspects of your site.

For more information about Environmental Reviews or to discuss your specific project, please contact Bill Douglass at 507-625-4171 or billdo@bolton-menk.com. For metro area inquiries, please contact Ron Roetzel at 952-890-0509 or ronro@bolton-menk.com.

Southeast Waconia AUAR

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Bolton & Menk, Inc. conducted an Alternate Urban Area-wide Review (AUAR) for 552 acres of residential, retail and office buildings in the southeast Waconia area.

The project included evaluation of potential impacts upon Fish, Wildlife and Ecologically Sensitive Resources, Water Resources, Water Use, Sanitary Sewer Flows, Erosion and Sediment Control, Surface Water Runoff Quality and Quantity, Geologic Hazards, Solid Wastes, Hazardous Wastes, Storage Tanks, Traffic, Air Emissions, Odors, Noise, and Dust, Visual Impacts, Nearby Sensitive Areas, Compatibility with Existing Plans and Land Use Regulations, Impact on Infrastructure and Public Services.

A full Mitigation Plan was also included to guide the City in the monitoring of the actual impacts and enforcement of the appropriate permits that may be granted. The mitigation plan established goals, set strategies, identified the responsible parties, and developed actions to meet these goals for the key significant issues identified through the environmental study.

Municipal Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Water Resources Engineering
Surveying and Mapping