When your wetland or stream bank needs a permanent home, Broad Water holds the easement, funds the endowment, and monitors the land — for as long as forever takes.
We hold and monitor conservation easements in perpetuity — for mitigation-bank sponsors who need a steward that keeps the promise for as long as the land must stay protected.
Regulators require permanent protection and permanent stewardship. Broad Water is structured, funded, and accredited to provide exactly that — so your credits clear, your obligations are met, and the land stays protected long after the bank has sold out.
Every bank we take on is backed by the structure regulators look for and sponsors can count on:
When you place a bank with Broad Water, the math works in your favor — twice.
We are specialists in placing a conservation easement on an existing or proposed Virginia-based bank to deliver an additional 5% in credit allocation — regardless of whether the bank has sold out of its allocated credits.
Whether a bank sells out in six months or six years, we transition it to long-term stewardship smoothly — moving funds from escrow to endowment earlier in the bank’s life, growing the stewardship fund over its entire lifespan.
Place a bank with Broad Water and the obligation to protect that land forever transfers cleanly from the permittee to us — backed by a funded, non-wasting endowment, not a promise.
As the bank sells credits, stewardship funds accumulate in escrow — set aside for the land’s permanent care.
We move those funds into a dedicated endowment, held and invested under an Interagency Review Team–approved policy. The principal is never spent down.
Annual earnings fund on-the-ground monitoring, legal defense of the easement, and a catastrophic-event reserve — every year, in perpetuity.
The result is an unambiguous transfer of liability from the permittee to a dedicated long-term steward — exactly the assurance regulators and sponsors are looking for.
We hold a conservation easement on the bank, locking in protection and unlocking added credit allocation.
As credits sell, we move funds from escrow to a dedicated stewardship endowment ahead of schedule.
Annual, on-the-ground monitoring and documented reporting for the life of the easement.
Transparent records keep regulators, sponsors, and the public confident the land stays protected.
Tell us about your wetland or stream bank, and we’ll walk you through how the easement, endowment, and monitoring come together.
A mitigation bank is only as strong as the steward standing behind it in year fifty. That is the job we are built for — and funded for.
We work alongside leading firms across mitigation banking and ecological restoration.
Whether your bank is proposed or nearly sold out, there is a smarter path to long-term stewardship. Tell us where things stand.