Environmental Overview
Environmental Stewardship
SHA is committed to adopting a broader, proactive philosophy toward protecting and enhancing the environment during the development of transportation improvement projects. Environmental stewardship is an approach that seeks to maximize the enhancement, protection, and improvement of natural, community and cultural resources and will be used in the US 301 Waldorf Area Transportation Improvements Project. It represents an opportunity for SHA and its partners to enhance the environment; resulting in an overall improvement as compared to before the project was implemented.
Environmental stewardship goes beyond those measures necessary to comply with federal and State environmental mitigation requirements and is voluntarily provided by SHA. Selected environmental stewardship measures in the Waldorf area will strive to address priority natural and community resource needs and may include wetland enhancement, preservation of important ecological areas, stream restoration, stormwater management improvements, retrofits, park and ride facilities, improvement or protection of key cultural resources, or upgrades to priority recreation areas.
As the project enters the next stage, extensive coordination and analysis of priority environmental stewardship opportunities will be completed by special task force groups representing both governmental and public interests in the Waldorf region.
