EcoKai provided upland and stream habitat restoration consulting services for Southern California Edison’s Mission Creek Habitat Restoration Project in the Santa Ynez Mountains east of Santa Barbara, California. During road grading activities conducted by SCE in 2019, substantial volumes of rock and soil (sidecast) were inadvertently deposited downslope along a nearly two-mile earthen access road Read more »
The Freshwater Marsh is a 51-acre wetland system constructed to provide treatment of stormwater and as compensatory mitigation for the neighboring Playa Vista residential development. The Marsh is located adjacent to the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve along the coast near Playa del Rey in Los Angeles County. EcoKai is currently contracted with the non-profit Ballona Wetlands Conservancy to provide Read more »
The South LA Wetland Park Project is a 9-acre constructed wetland park located in an urban area that includes storm water pre-treatment best management practice (BMP) measures, a storm water treatment wetland, and public park open space. The purpose of the Project is to improve storm water quality and downstream receiving water quality as well as provide valuable Read more »
EcoKai conducted field parameter monitoring and water quality field sampling in support of SCE’s relicensing effort for the Bishop Creek Hydroelectric Project Water Quality Study. SCE operates the Hydroelectric Project under a 30-year license issues by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is due to expire in 2024. As part of the relicensing process, SCE was directed to Read more »
EcoKai has performed water quality sampling for multiple clients to fulfill regulatory agency compliance requirements including Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) groundwater discharge permits, Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits, Coordinated Integrated Monitoring Programs (CIMPs), and Clean Water Act §401 Water Quality Certifications with the RWQCB. EcoKai Read more »
Fifteen years ago today EcoKai was founded on quality client service and volunteer work in the area of environmental consulting. The purpose was to incorporate a balanced (eco-hydrological) approach to projects in a simple environmental (Eco) office near the ocean (Kai). On Saturday June 8th, 2009, EcoKai opened a small office in downtown Manhattan Beach, Read more »
EcoKai is providing biological and environmental permitting services to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) for the LA River Path Project (Project). The Project consists of a new bicycle and pedestrian path along an approximately eight-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River (River) from Elysian Valley through Downtown Los Angeles to the City Read more »
Since 2011, EcoKai has been assisting the Kinney County Groundwater Conservation District in west Texas with the development and implementation of a Groundwater Monitoring Network. EcoKai has programmed, installed, maintained, and collected data from nearly 100 groundwater and stream monitoring locations covering an area of more than 1,000 square miles of the County. The data Read more »
This biological resource management and regulatory permit compliance project is located approximately one mile east of the Yosemite National Park boundary. EcoKai has programmed and installed Campbell Scientific remote data acquisition equipment that currently logs daily readings for soil moisture, depth to groundwater, and stream flow in locations of over 9400 ft msl. The effort Read more »