Foothill Partners, LLC., Re-investigation of Foothill/Virginia Site Wetland Status, Reno, Nevada

At the request of Foothill Partners, LLC., Huffman and Carpenter, Inc. conducted a re-investigation of the project area. The parcel in question was 5.8 acres in size. The purpose of the investigation was to determine the whether or not waters of the United States (WOUS) were present (in other words, that the site was a wetland). A previous delineation from another firm found the area did meet wetland criteria and therefore subject to regulation and protection.

There was concern that the water in the area came from irrigation and that the previous delineation had not accounted for the irrigation waters. The flow of irrigation waters onto the site created an atypical situation, Huffman & Carpenter, Inc.'s specialty, and makes the delineation of a wetland area more difficult. The Army Corps of Engineers has explicitly allowed that if an area displays wetland characteristics only due to irrigation, then the area will not be regulated as a wetland.