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We'd like to celebrate the completion of a new living shoreline that protects the beach and shoreline at West Severna Park.
This project, designed by Flood Bros. Marine Consulting, was funded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and Anne Arundel County's Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration and the community of West Severna Park. SRA served as grant administrator on this project.
The grasses were planted by community volunteers.
The new shoreline protects the shoreline from erosion. It will withstand flooding far better than revetments and bulkheads, and it creates new habitat for a wide variety of herons, crabs, grass shrimp, horseshoe crabs, forage fish.
severnriver.org/news/west-severna-park-living-shoreline/
Our October newsletter - News Along The Severn - is hot off the press. Lots of cool stories:
- Erik Kreifeldt takes over as SRA President,
- Welcome to our new science and development staff,
- UFO (unidentified floating object) in Bear Branch,
- Good news for oyster restoration efforts,
- Water quality update,
- Floating Classroom for students, and
- Return of the Mahogany Tide.
Follow this link: severnriver.org/newsletter/
Encouraging news from Capitol Hill. The House and Senate have now passed the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (ACE).
And, it looks like the White House has given up on trying to kill the Chesapeake Bay Program, which is reauthorized in this bill to the tune of $90.5 million. The president is expected to sign this bi-partisan bill.
The legislation would also renew the Chesapeake Gateway Program and create a $15-million grant program for ground restoration projects that help water and habitat.
www.ducks.org/press-room/house-passage-of-the-ace-act-is-great-achievement-for-conservation
House passage of the ACE Act is great achievement for conservation
ducks.org
Package containing NAWCA reauthorization heads to President's desk
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