Plans to construct a wetland to replace wetland
losses has become a common feature of permit requests.
The purpose of this project is to suggest a methodology
for quantifying the effectiveness of palustrine forested
wetland construction in Virginia. Wetlands constructed by
~ne Virginia Department of Transportation and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers were surveyed and Wagner Road
constructed wetland in Petersburg, Virginia was selected
as the primary study site.
Chapter One of the present study suggests a method
for early assessment of revegetation success utilizing
weighted averages of colonizing vegetation. An adjacent
reference site was chosen that was in close proximity to
the constructed site and was used for comparison. Results
from the Wagner Road site and the reference wetland
indicated that colonizing vegetation weighted averages provide a more sensitive measure of revegetation success
than the methods described in the federal wetland
delineation manual.
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