Breedlove, Dennis & Associates, Inc. (BDA) is a professional environmental and natural resources consulting firm founded in 1976. Since its inception, BDA has established a reputation for solving difficult environmental problems. Federal, state, and local environmental regulations frequently change, so finding an experienced environmental consulting firm is essential. BDA’s skilled team of scientists and environmental professionals provides services that emphasize client needs while complying with regulations. In addition to our environmental services offered, BDA has scientists qualified as expert witnesses in federal and state litigation.
Proven Track Record and Experience
BDA has a long history and extensive experience in the environmental and natural resources consulting field. Clients choose us because of our reputation for successfully solving complex environmental problems using sound scientific methods and a thorough understanding of regulations.
Regulatory Compliance Expertise
We excel in navigating the dynamic terrain of federal, state, and local environmental regulations, ensuring seamless compliance and risk mitigation for our clients. Our emphasis on regulatory adherence and communication with regulators provides our clients with peace of mind as they fulfill their environmental obligations.
Client-Centric Approach
BDA's client-centric approach to environmental consulting ensures tailored solutions that meet specific objectives and regulatory requirements.
Environmental Consulting
Ecological Services
BDA’s staff of Doctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s level personnel have extensive experience and expertise in a variety of environmental fields. We provide comprehensive, defensible, and environmentally sound solutions to environmental problems, enhance decision-making, and obtain permits and approval for projects.
- Aquatic Resources Analyses, Sampling and Assessments
- Benthic Resource Surveys
- Compliance Monitoring and Reporting
- Comprehensive Mitigation Plan Development
- Conditional Letter of Map Revision Support
- Conservation Bank Permitting and Support Services
- Conservation Easements and Land Trusts
- Endangered Species Act Documentation
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Federal/State/Local Permitting and Entitlement Strategies
- Habitat Classification, Evaluation, Design and Restoration
- Habitat Management Coordination
- Imperiled Species Assessments, Management and Agency Coordination
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permits
- Natural Resource and Wildlife Management Plans
- NEPA Documents and Analyses
- North Carolina – Stream Determinations
- Pre-purchase Evaluations and Regulatory Constraints Analyses
- Red-cockaded woodpecker banding and demographic monitoring
- Siting for Energy Generation and Transmission Utilities
- Wetland Mitigation Bank Permitting and Support Services
- Wetland Delineation and Jurisdictional Determinations
- Wetland Functional Assessments
Litigation Support and Rulemaking Analyses
Key BDA scientists are qualified as expert witnesses in state and federal proceedings, including litigation on Ordinary High Water Line determinations, wetlands permitting, ecological permitting, threatened or endangered species issues, water quality, and water chemistry. We provide the following litigation support services:
- Expert Witness Testimony
- Court Room Exhibits and Demonstration
- Response Comments and Hearing Testimony
- Assessment of Impact on Regulated Party
- Rulemaking Analyses
Landscape-Scale Development and Conservation Planning
BDA provides the strategic knowledge and experience needed to develop landscape-scale, long-term conservation plans for private properties, optimizing their environmental and development value and assuring future land use flexibility. With our broad range of environmental and policy expertise, we can assist landowners with assessing their property’s ecological and economic value within the broader landscape.
Applied Technology
BDA utilizes Geographic Information System (GIS) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) for mapping, reference, analyses, expert witness presentation/support and has an extensive library of vegetation data beyond what is commercially available. Our software is standardized around market leaders in the CAD/GIS industry. These include AutoCAD® for our CAD development, the Esri® family of products for our GIS development and Trimble Navigation® for our Global Positioning System (GPS) work. BDA’s licensed drone capabilities conduct/support wildlife species, vegetative analyses, habitat assessments, and site investigations.
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Assessment and Analyses
BDA conducts a comprehensive assessment and analyses of the client's environmental challenges and objectives. This involves reviewing project regulatory history for vested rights or permit approvals, evaluating regulatory requirements, identifying potential risks, and understanding the client's specific needs.
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Tailored Solutions Development
Based on the assessment, BDA customizes solutions tailored to address the client's objectives while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. This may include mitigation strategies, environmental impact assessments, regulatory compliance plans, and stakeholder engagement strategies.
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Implementation and Support
BDA supports the client throughout the implementation phase, providing guidance, expertise, and ongoing support as needed. This includes liaising with regulators, monitoring environmental performance, and adjusting strategies as necessary to achieve the desired outcomes while effectively mitigating risks.
1.
Assessment and Analyses
BDA conducts a comprehensive assessment and analyses of the client's environmental challenges and objectives. This involves reviewing project regulatory history for vested rights or permit approvals, evaluating regulatory requirements, identifying potential risks, and understanding the client's specific needs.
2.
Tailored Solutions Development
Based on the assessment, BDA customizes solutions tailored to address the client's objectives while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. This may include mitigation strategies, environmental impact assessments, regulatory compliance plans, and stakeholder engagement strategies.
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Implementation and Support
BDA supports the client throughout the implementation phase, providing guidance, expertise, and ongoing support as needed. This includes liaising with regulators, monitoring environmental performance, and adjusting strategies as necessary to achieve the desired outcomes while effectively mitigating risks.
Ecological Services
Pre-Purchase/Site Evaluations
Our cost-effective initial evaluation of agency regulatory jurisdiction and permitting requirements provides rapid constraints analysis and evaluation of the development potential of a site.
Wetland Jurisdictional Determinations
We provide the most accurate wetland assessments within the criteria established by all the agencies of concern: local, state, and federal.
Environmental Permitting
A primary product of the company is obtaining permits for wetland utilization. A thorough knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations is essential in procuring permits. BDA project managers are skilled at providing the right combination of data collection, agency negotiation, and follow-up for timely, successful completion of the permitting process.
Mitigation/Reclamation
In the Mitigation/Reclamation process, BDA staff assesses the magnitude of proposed wetland impacts and provides resourceful design alternatives. Mitigation plans are developed using area-based, value-based, and innovative techniques specific to site and project needs. In addition to wetland jurisdiction, permitting, and mitigation, BDA plays an active part in rules development and can conceive and negotiate the fairest settlement.
Environmental Surveys
The environmental surveys BDA provides include threatened and endangered (T&E) plant and animal surveys, wildlife population censuses, vegetation analyses, biological systems analysis, and urban wildlife sanctuary designs. The description of general plant and animal distributions, as well as specific threatened or endangered plants or animals, is accomplished through aerial photography and ground-level surveys.
Habitat Evaluation, Restoration and Design
A computerized Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP) can be completed, allowing staff to calculate the habitat value of a site under present conditions and with various development and mitigation scenarios played out over time.
Environmental Impact Statement / Development of Regional Impact
A seasoned project team is available to deal with the tough environmental issues involved in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Development of Regional Impact (DRI) approval.
Environmental Management
The firm's scientists develop comprehensive risk management strategies through environmental compliance audits, corporate merger and acquisition assessments, and site reviews.
Water Quality/Quantity Analysis and Monitoring
We provide agency-approved water quality and quantity studies along with our complete field sampling services, quality assurance program, and review of analytical results.
Ordinary High Water Line Determinations
Ordinary High Water Line (OHWL) or Normal High Water Elevation determinations can decide legal and technical issues such as ownership of land, engineering design, construction elevations, and setback requirements.
Expert Witness Testimony
The firm's key scientists have been qualified as expert witnesses in state and federal proceedings, including litigation on OHWL determinations, wetlands permitting, ecological permitting, T&E issues, water quality, and water chemistry.
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