Living Waters Consultants provided Wetlands Engineering including Fluvial Geomorphic Evaluations, Engineering Design, Plans, Details, Specifications, Cost Estimates, and Construction Observation services with team member V3 Consultants for re-meandering over 12,000 LF (2.3 miles) of a channelized reach of Raccoon Creek. Flows from the channelized stream were diverted into extant historic meanders in the Raccoon Creek floodplain.  Re-hydration and restoration of historic wetlands and backwater wetland habitat resulted. Raccoon Creek is classified by IDNR as a Biologically Significant Resource. Previously, the channelized stream lacked habitat for state endangered Iowa Darter. The restored streamside wetlands may provide sufficient habitat to allow this endangered species to become re-established in the project reach.  Observations of whooping cranes, bald eagles, short-eared owl, and sandhill cranes occupy the restored habitat.