The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank (DPMB) is a proposed stream and wetland mitigation bank located in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, within the Upper Savannah River Basin. The approximately 219.7-acre bank area (within a larger ~692.5-acre tract) is designed to restore, enhance, and preserve streams, wetlands, and associated buffers to provide compensatory mitigation for unavoidable impacts to waters of the United States.
Upon approval, the Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank will deliver long-term ecological benefits through large-scale stream restoration, wetland enhancement and preservation, improved water quality, and permanent conservation protections, while providing regulatory certainty for permit applicants.
The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank is located within the Broad River Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC 03060104), part of the Upper Savannah River Primary Service Area.
Primary Service Area (HUCs):
Secondary Service Area:
Total Bank Area: ~219.7 acres (within an approximate 692.5-acre ownership)
Location: Oglethorpe County, Georgia (approximately 1.25 miles north of Crawford, GA)
Aquatic Resources Identified:
Mitigation Activities:
Historically, the site was impacted by agricultural and silvicultural land uses, resulting in altered hydrology, incised and straightened streams, and degraded wetland functions. The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank will reverse these impacts by restoring natural channel morphology, reconnecting streams to floodplains, enhancing wetland hydrology and vegetation, and permanently protecting aquatic resources.
The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank proposes to:
These actions directly support watershed-scale restoration goals identified in the Georgia State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) and regional conservation initiatives within the Piedmont ecoregion.
The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank is expected to generate:
Credits will be calculated and released in accordance with:
Final credit types, quantities, and release schedules will be determined through the Draft and Final Mitigation Banking Instrument (MBI) and approval by the Interagency Review Team (IRT).
The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank will be:
Long-term stewardship provisions include:
The mitigation bank will not be open for public use and will be protected in perpetuity.
The Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank will provide significant environmental benefits, including:
By consolidating mitigation within a single, ecologically viable site, the bank provides meaningful functional lift at a watershed scale.
Purchasing credits from the Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank offers:
The bank serves as an efficient alternative to permittee-responsible mitigation.
Bank Sponsor:
Devil’s Pond Mitigation Bank, LLC
(Wholly owned by The Wetlandsbank Company, LLC)
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