2024-NR1 - Environmental Design, Engineering, and Permitting Services

This project will complete the Design, Engineering and Permitting Phase of a wetland restoration project to design a solution which will restore an eroding ditch that is negatively impacting aquatic habitat in Long Lake, a glacial lake in Springfield Township of Oakland County, Michigan. The project is located at Springfield Township’s Shiawassee Basin Preserve, a 600-acre township park. Long Lake is approximately 40 acres in size and 45 feet deep and supports populations of numerous MGLP Priority Species including a recently discovered population of inland cisco and is a popular lake for paddle in fishing. Located in the upper Shiawassee River watershed, the Shiawassee River flows into and out of Long Lake and the shoreline is comprised of one of the largest and highest quality prairie fen wetland complexes in the Midwest. The project will fund a design to stabilize and restore the wetland including the eroding ditch which will prevent future sediment deposition into the lake’s aquatic habitat and help to stabilize the shoreline.