We have the knowledge and capabilities to help you adhere to strict environmental regulations for permitting in relation to land, waterfront, and dredging projects.
Ensuring your company is in compliance has become an increasingly complex process. There are many variables to address, requiring you to stay nimble while also sticking to your timeline and budget. Working with an environmental specialist like S. T. Hudson can help facilitate your project. Our attention to detail when completing permit applications and our unparalleled expertise in follow-up negotiations has earned us the respect of both state and federal regulatory agencies—making the entire process more efficient.
Stay on top of changing regulatory matters, and don’t let improper filing and procedures risk a delay with your project. By enlisting the specialists at S. T. Hudson to assist with your environmental permitting, you will:
ST Hudson is a disciplined and motivated team that has strong leadership skills and possesses that innate ability to superbly balance practicality, budget, schedule, quality, and mission accomplishment.
Most permits require a conceptual design to be submitted with the permit application. Therefore, a permitting consultant should be brought in during or before the conceptual design phase.
The time it takes to secure a permit when doing in-water construction on a navigable waterway depends on the nature of the work and the location of the project, but as a general rule you should allot 6-9 months for the drafting and securing of local, state, and federal permits.
Dredging, disturbance of wetlands, waterfront development, pile driving, dock construction, bulkhead installation or repair, shoreline stabilization, outfalls installation, discharge operations, water intake systems installation, placement of fill in any body of water, and similar activities will probably require some level of permitting.
For permitting purposes, “In-water work” means any work that takes place below the mean high-water line. In many cases, activities conducted over water would also require a permit.
There are ways to fast track the permitting process. Hiring an environmental and permitting specialist, with an expertise in the permitting process and good relationships with the permitting agencies, will ensure the highest chances that the permitting process will take as little time as possible.