OCPW Mitigation collaborates with our Infrastructure Programs, Construction, and Operations and Maintenance service areas to identify opportunities to avoid and minimize impacts to the natural environment arising from OC Public Works capital improvement and infrastructure maintenance projects. For impacts that cannot be avoided, such as restoring capacity to a flood control channel, compensatory mitigation is required to offset impacts to habitats and special status species. Mitigation is achieved through the restoration, establishment, enhancement, and preservation of natural habitats. Once a property is dedicated to mitigation, it must be maintained in a natural state in perpetuity.
