New Jersey Wetlands Law and Compliance Seminar
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:30 pm
Identifying Wetlands
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Presence of wetland vegetation
Identification of wetland soils
Importance of underlying wetland hydrology
Understanding Federal and New Jersey
Wetlands Laws and Enforcement
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The Federal Clean Water Act
National Food Security Act of 1985
New Jersey Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act
Implementing/enforcing agencies
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Wetlands Permitting Proces
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Wetlands determinations and delineations
Determining applicability of regulations
Wetland permitting and certification processes
• Notice provisions
• Review process
• Mitigation/compensation requirements
Appeals process
Wetland Preservation, Restoration,
Creation and Enhancement
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Understanding the importance of wetlands
• Flood storage and conveyance
• Pollution control and carbon storage
• Erosion control
• Wildlife habitat
• Recreation
Wetland preservation strategies and techniques
Wetland restoration
• Preference for onsite and in-kind restoration
• Hydrological considerations
• Restoration techniques
Wetland creation
• Methods, benefits and drawbacks
Wetland enhancement
• Purposes and techniques
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 CPC
Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
6.0 NJ Continuing Ed. Hours
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 CPC credits to New Jersey professional engineers. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for New Jersey engineers (Approval No. 24GP00000700).
This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Courses approved by the AIA qualify for New Jersey architects.
The New Jersey Board of Architects has approved this course for 6.0 continuing education hours for landscape architect. The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this event for 6.5 HSW PDHs.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this seminar for 6.5 CECs for certified floodplain managers.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Scott E. Bush
Senior Ecologist/Wetland Scientist – GHD Services, Inc.Scott Bush, Senior Ecologist/Wetland Scientist – GHD Services, Inc.
Mr. Bush is senior ecologist with a broad background in ecological studies and over 29 years of experience as a consultant working for the private, non-profit, and public sectors. Mr. Bush is recognized expert in the identification, classification and delineation of wetlands and is proficient in analysis. He is certified as a professional wetland scientist by the Society of Wetland Scientists. Mr. Bush regularly works on projects requiring federal and state wetland/ecological permitting and is familiar with the applicable state and federal regulations and permitting requirements. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of ecological field studies related to habitat assessments and presence/absence investigations for a variety of rare, threatened, or endangered flora and fauna.
William Young
The Dawson CorporationPWS, CERP The Dawson Corporation
Mr. Young is a recognized leader in the environmental field with more than 30 years of experience as a project manager, designer, and wetland specialist. He holds a B.S. degree, SUNY Forestry, and a Master of Science degree from Pratt Institute. Mr. Young has experience in construction, design and planning on large scale restoration and wetland sites. His expertise includes habitat restoration on disturbed lands, wetlands monitoring and construction, natural resource inventory, forestry, wildlife assessment, mitigation and banking, and erosion and sediment control. Mr. Young is an adjunct professor at Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, teaching Sustainable Practices and Ecology.