Service Providers
About the Directory
The Connecticut Land Conservation Council (CLCC) Conservation Service Provider Directory provides a list of businesses, consultants, and contractors that have worked or have an interest in working with Connecticut land trusts.
Please note that while the following service providers are offered to assist Connecticut’s land conservation community, they are not meant to be exhaustive of either the types of services or the providers available to the public.
Important: Inclusion on a list is not an endorsement of any one or more of these service providers. We strongly recommend that before retaining the services of any service provider you ask for several references from land trusts and/or other organizations/individuals with whom they have worked.
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80 Eastern Blvd. Suite 5
EKI Environment & Water, Inc. (EKI) is an employee-owned company that provides comprehensive environmental, water resources, and engineering services. The firm’s primary objective is to achieve successful resolution of our clients’ environmental challenges to accomplish their project objectives, on time and within budget. EKI has a wide range of experience with complex sites including pre-acquisition due diligence assessments and developing strategies for assessing and remediating regulated and contaminated properties, including Brownfields, both in Connecticut and throughout the United States.
EKI has developed a reputation for effective technical project management by carefully assessing client needs, providing appropriate services led by experienced staff, and delivering products that fulfill client expectations.
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EKI takes a solution-oriented approach to projects that builds from a strong technical foundation and emphasizes proactive and effective communication with both our clients and regulatory agencies. This approach allows our clients to meet their goals and agency requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner.
EKI brings specific knowledge and experience conducting environmental services that include:
- Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
- Phase II & III Site Investigations
- Remedial Action Plan (RAP) development and implementation
- Remediation oversight and operation and maintenance
- Hazardous Building Material Assessment
- Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments
- Vapor Intrusion Assessment and Mitigation
- Environmental Compliance
- Technical Support to Corporate Management and Legal Counsel
455 Winding Brook Drive, Suite 201
GEI Consultants, Inc. is a consulting engineering and environmental firm that delivers value by providing professional services to improve our world’s-built environments. With more than 1,400 staff and 58 offices nationwide, GEI is a leader in providing multi-disciplined engineering and technical services to a range of private and public sector clients domestically and abroad.
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As an employee-owned firm, we foster personal relationships with our clients and cultivate our staff in a partnership model which is underpinned by continuous learning and sharing of knowledge. We retain proven recognized industry experts and attract the best young minds in the industry to deliver to our clients a refreshing blend of technical expertise, collaborative spirit and innovation that is rare in our profession.
GEI is consistently ranked among the top firms in Engineering News Record’s (ENR) annual list of Top Design Firms and Top Environmental Firms.
11 Olympia Street
Mosaic Eco-Solutions is an integrated natural resource / civil engineering outfit providing expertise in rural and urban land management. We specialize in the design/development of “mini-ecosystems” within the landscape to meet clean water, biodiversity, and energy goals. We are certified to complete PA490s, NRCS Forest Management Plans, Wildlife Enhancement Projects, and Timber Harvesting Activities. Although we are licensed Civil Engineers in Massachusetts, we can advocate and provide guidance for green infrastructure, stormwater, and other water resource projects. Our values are rooted in the “buy local” movement, affordable & walkable communities, and land conservation with active management.
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Mosaic Eco-Solutions was birthed during COVID and parallel to the actual birth of our second child. As a working parent with two young children, it made sense that a small-scale independent consultant model could potentially align with both our work/life balance needs and contribution to the conservation community. The “Mosaic” is a reference to “mosaic of patches” which is a landscape pattern made up of distinct habitat patches, or areas with a specific size, shape, and characteristics including individual forest stands, farms, wetlands, shrubland patches, highways, or towns. The patches are set within a matrix, which is the “background ecological system” of the landscape. We believe that our company within our community within the region is working towards conserving, monitoring, and expanding the health of the landscape. Our vision is designing and developing patches in our backyards, in our forests, and anywhere that can benefit the health of our landscape ecosystems. We specialize in working with private landowners, developers, land trusts, municipalities, and all stakeholders that know the value provided by environmental systems around us, and hopefully next to us and within us.
Why do we believe in “buy local”? Active management and stable local food and natural resource markets are key to people’s wellbeing. These resources and products from resources are the base of local economies; therefore, purchasing local products keeps money in local communities. This means resiliency, accessibility, and equity.
Why walkable communities? Land has immediate and long term value; more so immediate with the current price of housing and rent. We think making decisions that affect the next generation is important; therefore, it only makes sense to conserve and keep natural landscapes undeveloped and unhoused. We think that high density, walkable communities allow this and can be the solution. Smaller footprint does not mean void of natural ecosystems. Rural town centers, existing city communities, previously developed industrial lots all have the potential to support walkable communities. Suburban sprawl and strip development need to be removed from zoning regulations; these are not natural systems and cause significant fragmentation to the landscape.
Why active management? It is clear that our past land use has impacted the natural landscape, it is even more clear that our current decisions are drastically impacting our natural landscape. There can be no more “preservation” as a rule of thumb. We need to accept “no action” as an active management strategy that might work in some areas. Look at the non-native invasive plants and insect species that are driving the landscape’s natural development, creating monocultures. We want to create a cooperative of private landowners that have natural and healthy functioning ecosystems, and we would like to use eco-types from these members to restore and diversify the landscape. Active management supports the local economy, local resources, local farmers, local energy sources, and most importantly the creation of mosaic of patches.