Hugh Crowell

Hugh Crowell is the leader of Hull’s Ecology and Wetlands Practice and a Certified Professional Wet- land Scientist. His 22-year work history includes positions in the surface water program offices of both Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. EPA headquarters in Washington, DC. Hugh has managed ecological projects for brownfield, residential, commercial, industrial, county and municipal properties. He has written and negotiated numerous Clean Water Act Section 404/Section 401 and Ohio Isolated Wetlands permits, and designed stream and wetland monitoring programs. His mitigation experience includes design of wetland mitigations up to 30 acres in size. Hugh is Rosgen- trained in stream restoration and natural channel design through Level IV, and has performed stream stability, departure assessment, and restoration design on streams up to 1.5 miles in length. He also performed ecological risk assessments under the Ohio Voluntary Action Program (VAP), the Indiana Voluntary Remediation Program, the U.S. EPA Voluntary Corrective Action Program, and Superfund. Hugh received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the College of Wooster and his Master of Science in Botany/Plant Ecology from The Ohio State University. His service on water rule and policy commit- tees includes an appointment by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to serve as peer reviewer for the Midwest Supplement to the Wetland Delineation Manual, and participation in Ohio EPA Work Groups to review revised wetland rules and new stream mitigation rules. Hugh speaks to Continuing Law Education, industry, university, and public school groups all over Ohio and nationally on wetland and surface water issues.