The Lion Golf Club Mitigation Site is located in Haralson County, Georgia approximately 3 miles southwest of Bremen, Georgia on Price Creek Road adjacent to Turkey Creek. The Lion Golf Club Mitigation Site was created to provide compensatory wetland mitigation for a private developer within the Chattahoochee River watershed. The mitigation site is ±1-acre and was designed to create bottomland hardwood forest wetlands along a tributary of Turkey Creek. The created wetland was constructed to function as a floodplain riparian wetland and was accomplished by adjusting the grade of the existing floodplain to allow for seasonal flooding of along the unnamed tributary of Turkey Creek.

The mitigation actions taken at the Lion Golf Club Mitigation Site included clearing and grubbing the existing vegetation, removing fill material to adjust grade, and planting proper vegetation according to the Landscape Ecosystem Classification (LEC) model for the Piedmont floodplain. During construction topsoil was stockpiled and replaced at a minimum of 8 inches thick. The site was then fertilized at a rate of 200 pounds per acre of total nitrogen with slow release fertilizer and mulched with a 0.25-inch coir fiber blanket. The side slopes were stabilized by seeding with a grass mix, fertilized, and mulched with straw blankets. The created wetlands were planted with native tree, shrub and perennial herb species. Species selected for planting included overcup oak (Quercus lyrata), willow oak (Quercus phellos), and swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii) and a FACW herbaceous wetland seed mix.

ESI has been responsible for all phases of The Lion Golf Club Mitigation Site including collecting background data in order to provide documentation on the feasibility of the site, developing a conceptual and detailed design of the mitigation actions, successfully permitting the mitigation site, performing and overseeing the restoration construction, and monitoring the success of the restoration. Preliminary data collection included delineating the property for jurisdictional wetlands, surveying the property for threatened and endangered species, surveying the property for cultural resources, and applying the Landscape Ecosystem Classification Model (LEC) to determine the proper vegetation community.