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Mitigation Bank Credits in Virginia

Tye River Mitigation Bank

We are the creators of stream and riparian credits, stewards of the vital natural resources used to offset development and enable efficient permitting.

What is Tye River Mitigation Bank

The Tye River Mitigation Bank is located in Nelson County, Virginia and is made of over approximately 440 acres southeast of Arrington, Virginia. Tye Mitigation Bank is sponsored by Tillman Conservation, LLC. to establish a mitigation bank to provide offset compensation for the unavoidable loss of jurisdictional Waters of the United States, including streams and riparian buffers, and their associated ecological functions and services related to permitted impacts within the Bank’s Geographic Service Area (GSA) under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act. 

Where Is Tye River Located?

The Tye River is a 35.4 mile-long tributary of the James River in central Virginia in the United States. 

What Is Mitigation Banking?

Mitigation banking is the preservation, enhancement, restoration, or creation of a wetland, stream, or habitat conservation area which offsets or compensates for expected adverse impacts to similar nearby ecosystems. 

What are Mitigation Credits?

A mitigation bank generates credits for the amount and quality of habitat the bank site improves. 

Compensatory Mitigation Provider

Tye River Mitigation Bank not only provides credits to clients looking to offset the unavoidable environmental impact of their projects, but we also insure that cost-effective solutions are ready and waiting to all those needing mitigation. Learn more about what we do and how environmental credits can help save the planet and reduce the time and cost it takes your project to get a permit.

What we do

Conservation & Restoration

The Tye River Mitigation Bank is located in Nelson County, Virginia and is made of over approximately 440 acres southeast of Arrington, Virginia. Tye River Mitigation bank has mitigation Credits for developers to purchase. Credits are a more cost effective and efficient way to manage a restoration project than to try to get regulatory approvals that might otherwise take months to procure. 

Ecology and Economy

Tye River Mitigation Bank has restored units of affected acreage in the process of earning credits. There is no time lag between the onset of the environmental impact and compensatory mitigation restoration requirements at the bank site. The system of mitigation banking effectively transfers the liability of ecological loss from the developer (also called permittee) to the mitigation banker. Once the permittee buys the required credits, it becomes the responsibility of the mitigation banker to develop, maintain and monitor the site on a long-term basis.

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Tye River Mitigation Bank
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Follow Our Restoration Progress

This important ecological restoration project, including invasives management and the transplanting of significant new native plant material, is all part of restoring, enhancing and preserving these headwater floodplains and the many ecological functions on the site. Monitoring takes place annually to document progress and to ensure the Bank is meeting the ecological goals set for the site.

Geographic Service Area

Visit our Primary and Secondary geographic service areas located within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Mitigation Credits Available

Centrally located on 440 acres inside the fast-growing triangle of Lynchburg, Charlottesville, and Staunton, the bank will offset unavoidable environmental impacts to streams and riparian areas within its Primary and Secondary Service Area.

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