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Ninigret Pond Salt Marsh Restoration and Enhancement Project

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Project Map (PDF)

From NERRA: “Will Marshes Rise to the Challenge of Rapidly Rising Seas?” (HINT: Rhode Island’s won’t, without help)

Check out the Ninigret Pond salt marsh restoration and enhancement project on YouTube (video courtesy of J.F. Brennan)

Fact Sheet

Improving Salt Marsh and Community Resilience Using Dredged Materials in Ninigret Pond (PDF)

Project Photos and Videos

Planting on May 19th, 2017

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Video: Save The Bay's David Prescott (South Coast Baykeeper) explaining the planting effort

Video: Wenley Ferguson of Save The Bay is instructing volunteers how to plant Spartina marsh grasses in the proper way

The Dredging Process
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Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy CRMC
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy CRMC
Dredging
Photo courtesy CRMC
Dredging
Photo courtesy CRMC
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
Dredging
Photo courtesy J.F. Brennan
 
 

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