EcoKai provides upland and stream restoration consulting services for Southern California Edison’s Mission Creek Habitat Restoration Project along Mission Canyon in the Santa Ynez Mountains east of Santa Barbara, California. An extensive deposition of rock and soil (sidecast) was deposited down-slope of a nearly 2-mile mountain access road above Mission Canyon and within Mission Creek during road grading activities Read more »
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Ballona Freshwater Marsh and Riparian Corridor Management
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 »
South LA Wetland Park Project
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 »
Bishop Creek Hydroelectric Project Relicensing, Water Quality Study – Southern California Edison
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 »
Without Water There Can Be No Life FEAT. Beau Bridges
Stormwater Monitoring and Water Quality Sampling and Analysis (SWPPP)
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 »
EcoKai’s 15 Year Anniversary
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 »
Hydroelectric Project Riparian Monitoring – Southern California Edison
EcoKai performs hydrological, geomorphological, and biological field surveying and monitoring along several streams in remote wilderness areas associated with Southern California Edison (SCE) hydroelectric generation projects in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Forest Service (under authority of Section 4(e) of the Federal Read more »
Los Angeles River Path Project – LA Metro
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 »
Groundwater Investigation and Monitoring – Kinney County, Texas
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 »