Welcome to the Detroit Districts Environmental Analysis Branch. EAB is responsible for ensuring environmental compliance in all aspects for the Corps? Civil Works Program.

The staff in EAB is comprised of environmental specialists in the areas of: archaeology, biology, chemistry, fisheries, hazardous waste management, and wildlife. The EAB is the home of the District's Water Quality Coordinator as well as the Native American Tribal Facilitator.

Services which EAB can provide either directly or through contractors:

• Biological surveys (fish, benthos)
• Bioassays/Bioaccumulation Testing
• Cultural/Archaeological Resource Inventories Endangered Species Inventory/Evaluation
• Endangered species Inventory/Evaluation
• Environmental Enhancement, Mitigation and Restoration Planning
• Environmental Impact Statements/Assessments
• Laboratory Services (chemical and physical testing of soils, sediment, tissue and water)
• Laboratory Quality Assurance/Quality Control
• Management of Sediment Treatment Demonstrations (e.g. Saginaw, Duluth Alt. Technology, Biomounds, etc.) Modeling/GIS
• Property audits (Phase I and Phase II)
• Sediment Sampling and Evaluation
• Water Sampling and Water Quality Evaluations

The EAB is able to work local entities and leverage funds from other Corps and non-Corps agencies on projects, which relate to the Corps mission. The EAB is currently conducting or assisting with several Support for Others (SFO) projects.

• Topsoil creation (e.g. Milwaukee and Green Bay Harbor)
• Mobile Treatment Plant (e.g. Green Bay)
• Mined Land Reclamation (e.g. Duluth Superior Harbor)
• Environmental Dredging (e.g. Grand Marais, Saginaw River)
• Sediment Testing and Evaluation (e.g. Lake St. Clair- Macomb Co.; Tannery Bay-White Lake, Michigan; and Ruddian Creek-Muskegon Lake, Michigan)