Donald W. Brickner

Mr. Brickner has seventeen years of experience in the environmental consulting industry focusing on land use permitting and ecological investigations throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. He is responsible for the management of environmental projects and performing the following technical services: field investigations and preparation of permit applications in support of projects requiring approvals from state and federal regulatory programs, such as Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA), Waterfront Development, Freshwater Wetlands, Coastal Wetlands, Flood Hazard Area, New Jersey Pinelands Commission, Section 404 of the federal Clean Water Act, Section 10 of the U.S. Rivers and Harbor Act; delineation of freshwater and coastal wetlands utilizing methods presented in the Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands (Federal Interagency Committee for Wetland Delineation, 1989), the Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual (USACE, 1987) and regional supplements, and the New Jersey Pinelands Commission Manual for Identifying and Delineating Pinelands Area Wetlands (NJ Pinelands Commission, 1991); services associated with all phases of freshwater and coastal wetland mitigation projects, including coordination of mitigation credit transfer (credit banking), habitat evaluation, wetland functional assessment, soil and hydrologic analysis, site design and landscaping, construction oversight, and post-construction monitoring; surveys for rare flora and fauna; habitat assessments; soil evaluations to determine site suitability for development; and natural resource evaluations to assess potential environmental impacts. Mr. Brickner has testified on various environmental issues, including wetlands and rare species, at the local and state levels and has served as a third-party expert in civil actions involving wetlands.