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LASN 2010 Firms: Angler Environmental (AE)09-07-10 | News

Angler Environmental (AE),
Manassas, Va.

HGS, LLC dba Angler Environmental (Angler) was founded in 1999. Angler specializes in water resources consulting, design, restoration and mitigation services. Angler has grown to a full-service ecological consulting and environmental construction firm with 70 staff members and separate branch offices in Richmond, Virginia and Hanover, Maryland.

Angler’s gross revenues in 2009 ($11.1 million) were the firm’s second highest grossing year. The firm’s specialized professionals—engineers, landscape architects, contractors and company equipment enable a combined project delivery approach. Field ecology, regulatory, inspections, design/engineering, ecological construction, pond/lakes, graphics/mapping and geomatics are company divisions.

Project awards include: 2009 Dave Pearson Watershed Excellence Award, Virginia Lakes and Watersheds Association, for coordinated, regional watershed improvements, town of Warrenton, Va.

The Washington Business Journal, 2007-2009, rated the firm the “Top Environmental Consultants of the D.C.-metro area.”

Principals: Lee Goodwin & Don Seaborn
Design Software: BentleyMicrostation, V.8i and Power Civil V.8i, ESRIArcMap 9.3.1

Westridge HOA Pond Enhancement (design/build), Prince William County, Va. (Potomac watershed)

Designer: Angler Environmental
Client/Project Owner: Westridge Homeowners’ Association, Woodbridge, Va.

Angler Environmental (AE) designed a stabilization and enhancement plan and built a seven-acre amenity pond for the Westridge residential community. A bathymetric survey of the pond bottom was completed to assess
the need for dredging. The pond was drained. Trees lining the dam embankment were removed and stump treated. Excess sediment was dredged and rock weir inlet protection devices established in the inflowing stream. A two-foot high, 1,400 linear foot long anchor block retention wall adds an attractive finish to the trails. AE enhanced the onsite recreational features by creating wetland benches for emergent vegetation habitat, developing new asphalt trails, constructing two fishing piers and landscaping the site. Once water levels were sufficiently restored, AE implemented fish stocking to reestablish the fishery.