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# Environmental Solutions & Innovations, Inc.: Real Science. Real Solutions.

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- [Opt Out](https://environmentalsi.com/opt-out/): 4525 Este Ave.Cincinnati, Ohio 45232Phone: (513) 451-1777
- [Contact ESI](https://environmentalsi.com/contact-esi/): 4525 Este Ave.Cincinnati, Ohio 45232Phone: (513) 451-1777
- [Careers](https://environmentalsi.com/careers/): ESI is always looking for great individuals to join our team - please view our current job advertisements!
- [Office and Staff Locations](https://environmentalsi.com/office-staff-locations/): Office & Staff Locations
- [Key Staff](https://environmentalsi.com/key-staff/): Key Staff
- [About ESI](https://environmentalsi.com/about-esi/): Environmental Solutions & Innovations, Inc. (ESI )is a leader in environmental consulting, ESI is a small, SBA-certified, woman-owned S-corporation founded in March 2000 and specifically aimed at providing clients with nothing short of exceptional service and sound, scientific solutions for balancing societal needs with conservation and enhancement of the natural environment. ESI began with a single, senior scientist, Dr. Virgil Brack, Jr., who, in the early years, cultivated a permanent staff through hiring seasonal workers and grooming them into assuming full-time positions.
- [Industries](https://environmentalsi.com/industries/): ESI’s reputation for scientific excellence, strong rapport with governing agencies, and comprehensive understanding of the regulatory framework enables unique solutions to complex problems, efficiently and effectively. ESI professionals are accustomed to the dynamics of shifting project timelines and changing priorities, effectively keeping projects on track to successful completion. Leveraging a mastery of science, engineering, and ecology in tandem with regulatory expertise, ESI’s client partners across the energy, land development, and government market arenas realize measurable benefits demonstrated by repeat business and long-term relationships, built on trust and integrity.
- [Wetlands and Waterways](https://environmentalsi.com/wetlands-waterways/): Responding to current regulatory fluctuations affecting federal aquatic resource definitions and rules, ESI’s team of certified Professional Wetland Scientists (PWS) and experienced ecologists keep a watchful eye focused on continuously changing regulations, ensuring projects are expediently reviewed and executed and client recommendations are based on up-to-the-minute information. ESI’s clients benefit from prudent permitting strategies and early evaluation of project constraints. Service offerings cover the full spectrum of aquatic resource regulatory concerns including wetland and stream delineations, wetland and stream functional assessments, mitigation design and construction oversight, wetland and stream monitoring, and 401/404 permitting.
- [Terrestrial Ecology](https://environmentalsi.com/terrestrial-ecology/): A solid foundation for project success begins with retaining a team of professional scientists, experienced with a broad range of taxa and federally permitted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for multiple species. ESI’s terrestrial ecologists hold advanced degrees, are active within the scientific community, and are professionally certified by organizations such as The Wildlife Society and Ecological Society of America. Employing resourceful and critical thinking coupled with a science-based approach, ESI effectively generates efficient, innovative solutions, tailored to meet project compliance needs.
- [Regulatory Compliance](https://environmentalsi.com/regulatory-compliance/): You can’t build your project without wetland, endangered species, cultural resource, and erosion and sedimentation (E&S) clearance. ESI provides clients a one-stop shop for natural and cultural resource permitting and assessment services. Few consulting firms produce the full spectrum of complex and challenging regulatory documents – from compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act to 401/404 permitting for wetlands and waterways to Section 7 and 10 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). ESI’s seasoned experts overcome regulatory hurdles to ensure project deliverables appropriately fulfill regulatory compliance requirements and are successfully completed in a timely manner precluding costly project delays.
- [GIS and Remote Sensing](https://environmentalsi.com/gis-remote-sensing/): Geographic Information System (GIS) serves as an integral component of nearly all ESI’s projects with uses ranging from basic cartography to statistical analyses to advanced application of database features for landscape modeling. Remotely sensed data gathered via aerial, satellite, and/or radar imagery are used in GIS to facilitate multiple project phases from initial planning through modeling potential impact mitigation approaches. ESI’s analysts employ advanced GIS capabilities contributing to a variety of project needs such as development of landscape-level models and how various species are impacted by habitat management practices.  
- [Environmental Monitoring](https://environmentalsi.com/environmental-monitoring/): As linear and land development projects transition from design and permitting to construction, ensuring continued, uninterrupted compliance with permit requirements, applicable regulations, and good practices is critical to keeping projects on track and avoiding costly violations and construction delays. ESI’s engineering and environmental inspectors offer not only continuity support, but augment project oversight processes with custom-designed programmatic controls, facilitating overall workflow and compliance from project inception through construction. Offerings include developing procedures allowing clients to “self-monitor” project activities. ESI applies innovative strategies for maximizing project efficiency while meeting or exceeding environmental quality standards.
- [Cultural Resources](https://environmentalsi.com/cultural-resources/): ESI’s Cultural Resources Program assists clients in meeting the full-spectrum of regulatory requirements – from desktop analyses to field inventories to National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility statements to creative mitigation solutions. Understanding the nuance of historic, archaeological and cultural regulations, specifically applying regulations to different situations, and importantly communicating subtleties to clients set ESI’s cultural resource professionals apart from other consulting firms. Providing exceptional client service remains the same regardless of whether project needs involve National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Section 106 compliance for an individual building site or a suite of services including meeting facilitation for an energy project encompassing thousands of acres and involving multiple jurisdictions.
- [Conservation and Land Use Planning](https://environmentalsi.com/conservation-land-use-planning/): Rapidly changing regulations create new challenges for clients across all industries and mandate experienced, competent consultation to prevent unnecessary delays or expenditures. ESI’s expert team of nationally recognized technical professionals offer specialized knowledge of both protected species and the regulatory processes governing them, ensuring projects stay on track and creating win-win scenarios for natural resources and project stakeholders. From restoration to mitigation to planning, ESI remains at the forefront of the regulatory arena providing clients a trusted and reliable partner for follow-through on projects through completion.
- [Aquatic Ecology](https://environmentalsi.com/aquatic-ecology/): ESI’s aquatics team comprises professionally certified biologists and ecologists offering a comprehensive suite of services supporting resource management inventories and regulatory compliance including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act. Regardless of whether projects involve crossing small streams or large rivers, ESI addresses concerns ranging from water quality and streamflow assessments to mussel, crayfish, fish, and macroinvertebrate communities, and leverages unique, insightful experience encompassing both informal and formal consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Specialized and diverse staff possess an exceptional level of regulatory expertise allowing early identification of potential issues and expedient solutions for overcoming project obstacles. ESI routinely manages complex projects other consulting firms struggle to complete. 
- [Civil Engineering](https://environmentalsi.com/civil-engineering/): New ideas, imagination, and innovative solutions best describe ESI’s approach to Civil Engineering and validate why clients repeatedly return for help with projects from small site developments to complex multi-state gas pipelines and electric transmission lines. Staff professionals competently assume the roles dictated by project needs ranging from niche contractor to turnkey environmental and engineering service provider. Small, client-focused teams led by ESI’s Professional Engineers, ensure project and staffing continuity and minimize extraneous costs and overruns. Continual reinvestment in process improvement affords optimized data collection, leading edge design technologies, fine-tuned accuracy, expedient turn-around time, and increases transparency regarding project deliverables. 
- [Services](https://environmentalsi.com/services/): ESI provides clients a one-stop shop for cultural and natural resource services, civil engineering, and wetlands and waterways concerns. Clients range from large multi-national corporations to individual landowners in the energy, transportation, land development, and government industries. ESI’s reputation for scientific integrity, service excellence, strong rapport with government agencies, and comprehensive understanding of the regulatory framework ensure unique resourceful solutions to complex problems all within time and budget constraints. 
- [Privacy Policy](https://environmentalsi.com/privacy-policy/): Our Company privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.
- [Home](https://environmentalsi.com/): Environmental Permitting & Consulting Solutions for Complex Projects

## Projects
- [Mountain Valley Pipeline](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/mountain-valley-pipeline/): ESI managed regulatory compliance for rare, threatened, and endangered (RTE) species for the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, an approximate 304-mile interstate natural gas pipeline crossing Virginia and West Virginia.
- [Long Cane Ranger District Bat Surveys](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/long-cane-ranger-district-bat-surveys/): In support of the Forest’s Management Plan, ESI completed bat surveys across three summers (2019 – 2021) on the Long Cane Ranger District of the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests in South Carolina.
- [Red Oak Pipeline](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/red-oak-pipeline/): ESI completed regulatory compliance for rare, threatened, and endangered (RTE) species, wetlands, and cultural resources for the Red Oak Pipeline project, an approximate 650-mile interstate crude pipeline crossing Oklahoma and Texas.
- [Revolution Pipeline](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/revolution-pipeline/): ESI developed environmental plans and provided supporting environmental studies along a 55-mile natural gas pipeline corridor and associated access roads in Pennsylvania.
- [Atlantic Coast Pipeline](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/atlantic-coast-pipeline/): ESI conducted multi-taxa field studies, assisted with regulatory document preparation, and engaged in extensive federal and state agency coordination for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a proposed 600-mile interstate natural gas pipeline crossing Virginia and North Carolina.
- [Breaks-Haysi 69 kV Transmission Rebuild](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/breaks-haysi-69-kv-transmission-rebuild/): ESI conducted multi-taxa field studies, assisted with regulatory document preparation, and lead extensive federal and state agency coordination for American Electric Power’s Breaks-Haysi 69 kV Transmission Rebuild Project in Dickenson County, Virginia. The project involved rebuilding approximately six miles of 69 kV transmission line and over 13 miles of access roads crossing both federal and private lands, with portions of both the transmission line and access roads occurring within the Clinch Ranger District of the Jefferson National Forest.
- [I-69 Highway Expansion](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/i-69-highway-expansion/): ESI completed mutli-taxa field surveys and provided regulatory document support for the proposed I-69 highway expansion project in Indiana.
- [Catawba-Wateree Hydroelectric](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/catawba-wateree-hydroelectric/): ESI implemented the North American Bat Acoustic Monitoring Program (NABat) to prepare and implement Species Protection Plans as part of relicensing efforts for Duke Energy’s Catawba-Wateree Reservoir in North and South Carolina through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
- [Allegheny National Forest](https://environmentalsi.com/projects/allegheny-national-forest/): Beginning in 2020, ESI was awarded multiple heritage resource call orders under a Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service’s Allegheny National Forest (ANF) to facilitate ANF compliance with Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Archaeological Resources Protection Act, and the Pennsylvania History Code.