Middlewater Natural Gas Line Project

Client: Phillips 66 Pipeline Company
Location: Belridge, Kern County, California
Completion Date: Ongoing since 2014

Project Highlights

Pre-construction Biological Surveys

• Focused blunt-nosed leopard lizard surveys
• Special-status plant surveys
• Nesting bird surveys
• Western burrowing owl surveys
• San Joaquin kit fox surveys
  • San Joaquin kit fox den monitoring
• Focused surveys for San Joaquin antelope squirrels
  • SJAS trapping and relocation
  • Small mammal burrow excavation 

Designated Biologist and Biological Monitoring

• Implementation of CDFW ITP, CDFW Streambed Alteration Agreement, and CDFW monitoring plans.
• Annual Report preparation for CDFW Incidental Take Permit and CDFW Streambed Alteration Agreement
• Habitat disturbance tracking
• Erosion control measures
• Habitat restoration planning and implementation