SERVICE AREAS

SOUND SCIENCE + EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

ASA provides a wide range of environmental science and engineering services. In addition to ASA’s expertise, we have long standing close working relationships with a number of other highly qualified firms that can provide expertise in the areas that extend beyond our in-house capabilities. Through these relationship, ASA can provide the full range of services need by our clients to permit existing operations or secure approvals for new capital expenditures.

DATA COLLECTION & MANAGEMENT

AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT

RISK AND IMPACT

ASA has extensive experience in conducting environmental risk and impact assessments in many regulatory venues. Specific services include: water and sediment quality sampling, natural resource inventories, rapid bioassessments, ecotoxicology, ecological risk, fish entrainment & impingement at water intakes & thermal discharges, environmental impact-NEPA, resource damages, ecological mitigation/restoration, and environmental compliance auditing. ASA has completed recent projects pursuant to NEPA and well as NYSSEQR and NYC-CEQR.

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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

ASA also has experience in management planning for natural resources. Habitat conservation, benefits valuation under CWA 316(b), biothermal assessment under CWA 316 (a), watershed management, endangered species conservation and ESA incidental take, lake & stream management. Recently, ASA completed a coastal resource assessment for Nassau County, NY as part of post-Super Storm Sandy impact assessment and climate change resiliency planning.

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ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION & HABITAT ASSESSMENT

ASA provides design and oversight services related to environmental restoration and enhancement activities. Specific areas of service include aquatic habitats, invasive species management, wetlands and shorelines, pre and post-monitoring plans, adaptive management plans, waterbodies and watersheds, fish passage and dam removal, and fisheries management. Increasingly, ASA has been at the forefront of restoration activities associated with small hydro FERC relicensing.

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PERMITTING, LICENSING, & CONSULTATION

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ASA also has in-house capabilities to support our traditional §316(a) and (b) biological services on:

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

SUPPORT SERVICES

ASA also has a variety of other service capabilities. These can be employed to support the work described above or as direct stand-alone services.

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