When your wetland or stream bank needs a permanent home, Broad Water holds the easement, manages the endowment, and monitors the land, for as long as forever takes.
We hold and monitor conservation easements in perpetuity for mitigation-bank sponsors who need a steward that keeps the promise for as long as the land must stay protected.
Regulators require permanent protection and permanent stewardship. Broad Water is structured and funded to provide exactly that, so your credits clear, your obligations are met, and the land stays protected long after the bank has sold out.
Every bank we take on is backed by the structure regulators look for and sponsors can count on. We are an IRT-approved long-term steward, recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 13 districts across 11 states: Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri.
Place a bank with Broad Water and the obligation to protect that land forever transfers cleanly from the sponsor to us. It’s backed by a funded, dedicated endowment, with each account managed to that property’s specific needs.
As the bank sells credits, stewardship funds are set aside for the land’s permanent care.
We move those funds into a dedicated endowment, held and invested under an Interagency Review Team–approved policy.
Annual earnings fund on-the-ground monitoring, legal defense of the easement, and a catastrophic-event reserve, every year, in perpetuity.
The result is an unambiguous transfer of liability from the sponsor to a dedicated long-term steward. That’s exactly the assurance regulators and sponsors are looking for.
We hold a conservation easement on the bank, locking in protection.
As credits sell, stewardship funds move into a dedicated endowment for the land’s permanent care.
Annual, on-the-ground monitoring and documented reporting for the life of the easement.
Transparent records keep regulators, sponsors, and the public confident the land stays protected.
Tell us about your wetland, stream, or species bank, and we’ll walk you through how the easement, endowment, and monitoring come together.
A mitigation bank is only as strong as the steward standing behind it in year fifty. That is the job we are built for — and funded for.
We work alongside leading firms across mitigation banking and ecological restoration.
The short answers to what mitigation-bank sponsors want to know before placing a site with a long-term steward.
A long-term steward takes on the permanent care of a wetland, stream, or species mitigation bank after restoration is complete. Broad Water Innovations holds the conservation easement, manages the dedicated stewardship endowment, and performs annual on-the-ground monitoring with documented reporting for the life of the easement, in perpetuity.
We are an IRT-approved long-term steward recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 13 districts across 11 states: Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri.
As a bank sells credits, stewardship funds are set aside for the land’s permanent care and moved into a dedicated endowment, held and invested under an Interagency Review Team–approved policy. Annual earnings fund on-the-ground monitoring, legal defense of the easement, and a catastrophic-event reserve, every year.
Either. We can serve as easement holder, long-term steward, or endowment manager: any one role, or all three. Many sponsors prefer one partner for the whole obligation, but the structure is flexible.
Placing a bank with Broad Water creates an unambiguous transfer of liability from the sponsor to a dedicated long-term steward, backed by a funded endowment. That is the assurance regulators look for and the clean exit sponsors need.
Our partners are mitigation-bank sponsors and the mitigation companies that develop bank sites. Landowner relationships are typically handled by those companies; Broad Water then holds the easement and stewards the land for the long term. If you are a landowner with a question, get in touch and we can point you in the right direction.
Whether your bank is proposed or nearly sold out, there is a smarter path to long-term stewardship. Tell us where things stand.