Environmental Sample Projects

Environmental Sample Projects
  • Streambank Stabilization Design, Water Quality Impact Assessment, and Pre-Construction Notification for Parkside Villages
    Reston, Virginia
    Working with a prominent area land developer, RDA: 1) prepared a streambank stabilization design to satisfy proffers on a rezoning approval in Fairfax County; 2) prepared a Water Quality Impact Assessment and Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Area encroachment request, 3) delineated wetlands and waterways according to the US Army Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual; and 4) submitted a pre-construction notification for authorization under nationwide permit to the US Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Lee Highway (Route 29) Corridor Study
    Fairfax County, Virginia
    Delineated wetlands & waterways and obtained a jurisdictional determination from the Corps. of Engineers along 5 miles of Route 29 between Shirley Gate Road and Route 28. Provided input to Feasibility Study for Roadway Widening.

  • North Lynn Street Esplanade
    Arlington County, Virginia
    As part of the Toole Design team for the North Lynn Street Esplanade project in Rosslyn (Arlington County, VA), RDA is providing an environmental assessment (EA) consistent with the National Park Service (NPS) Director’s Order #12 and the President’s Council on Environmental Quality’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation regulations for those improvements that would occur on NPS properties within the project area. Arlington County is planning a number of measures, including: the realignment of highway on- and off-ramps from the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Interstate Route 66; the realignment of pedestrian / bicycle trails; creation of an pedestrian overlook area; new signage; and new landscape plantings on NPS properties at the intersection of North Lynn Street in Rosslyn with the Francis Scott Key Bridge to the Georgetown portion of the District of Columbia. Key issues are the impacts of the improvements on the historic landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and on the views from other National Register eligible properties in Virginia and the District. If needed, the EA effort would expand to VDOT/FHWA issues, as well.