Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino

SERVICES USED ON THIS PROJECT INCLUDE:
	Environmental Compliance		Resource Management

Sapphos Environmental, Inc. has provided biological resource management services and related environmental compliance services to The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan) since 1993, completing six open-ended service contracts. During this period, Sapphos Environmental, Inc. managed multidisciplinary teams of wetland delineators, wildlife biologists, raptor specialists, mammalogists, botanists, and habitat restoration specialists in the production of more than 130 delivery orders. These services have been provided in Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino and have required coordination with virtually every major regulatory agency in California, including the California Department of Fish and Game, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE), U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and local county and city governments.

Sapphos Environmental, Inc. has successfully assisted Metropolitan with regulatory permitting pursuant to Sections 401 and 404 of the federal Clean Water Act for nationwide permits under the jurisdiction of USACOE, Streambed Alteration Agreements pursuant to Section 1602 of the California State Fish and Game Code under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Fish and Game for routine channel clearing and emergency after-the-fact repairs, biological monitoring for special status plant and animal species within fuel-break maintenance and reservoir operations areas, natural resource assessments within Metropolitan’s ecological reserves, and the development and implementation of habitat wetland plans and input to multi-species habitat conservation plans throughout Metropolitan’s 5,200-square-mile service area.