High Impact Environmental Inc.
High Impact Environmental Inc. (HIE) is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, located in Chestertown, Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. HIE’s mission is to develop programs that implement, promote and educate the public about cost-feasible, storm water conservation and management practices in Queen Anne’s and surrounding counties.
The founder and President of HIE, Samuel Owings, in 2010 and 2011 implemented a “Cascading System” of Floodway Stormwater Containment Basin on the lands of Hambleton Creek Farms a 400 acre grain farm located in the upper Hambleton Creek sub water shed to the Chester River.
Owings’s goal is to reduce or potentially eliminate stormwater discharge from a 600 acre drainage area from entering Hambleton Creek. This system has proven to the industry that cost effective methods to prevent sediments, nutrients and other pollutants from entering state waters is possible.