Bradwood Landing has designed its terminal to avoid and minimize impacts to fish and wildlife to the greatest extent possible and to virtually eliminate operational impacts at the facility to fish and wildlife. Specific avoidance and minimization measures include:
- Restructuring the facility to a compact footprint (about 40 acres of the 411-acre property);
- Reducing the number of pilings needed by using larger diameters, thereby reducing in-water construction time, and completing work when the fewest fish are present;
- Adapting proven state-approved fish screens to avoid entrainment of juvenile fish (including listed salmon) into ship ballast tanks and engine cooling systems;
- Using horizontal directional drilling to route the pipeline under streams and wetlands to avoid and minimize impacts from pipeline construction; and
- Dredging for the ship turning basin will be in an area formerly used as a deepwater dock that is already deeper than 20 feet, deeper than the typical habitat for juvenile salmonids.
To compensate for impacts, Bradwood will go beyond normal industry standards to:
- Acquire, protect and restore 240-acre Svensen Island in the Columbia Estuary and restore 65 acres of diked areas to tidal marsh and off-channel habitat to mitigate for the filling of 14 acres of man-made wetlands (including the old mill log pond) within the project area;
- More than replace wetland acreage and function lost by conversion of forested wetlands in Washington by restoring and enhancing, or creating, wetlands at up to a 7:1 ratio;
- Restore 225 acres of native floodplain wildlife habitat within Oregon;
- Conserve an additional 800 acres of prime habitat for Columbian white-tail deer; and
- Restore estuarine fish habitat to compensate for lost habitat above required standards.
