Programs: Restoration
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Restoration is a process of reestablishing a self-sustaining habitat: returning a polluted or degraded environment as closely as possible to a healthy, self-sustaining ecosystem. Our restoration strives to replicate the original natural system to support the numerous species that make up the Severn’s unique character. As restoration practitioners, our goal is to expedite natural processes in rebuilding a healthy, functioning natural ecosystem.
Our environmental restoration work includes:
- Planting trees, shrubs, and grasses
- Removing trash from streambeds and banks
- Removing culverts and restoring stream channels
- In-stream habitat reconstruction including regenerative stormwater conveyance systems
- Erosion control and living shoreline bank stabilization;
- Stewardship and monitoring
- Project management, design and funding
The Saltworks Creek Watershed Assessment and Action Plan defines the level of stream and watershed restoration necessary and help the Severn Riverkeeper and other groups to prioritize restoration projects. This Assessment is a tool that:
1) inventories key problems and
2) identifies a list of prioritized projects to alleviate the serious siltation and nutrient runoff issues.Above all, this assessment is action oriented and puts activists and decision makers in a position to proceed with prioritized designs so that a restoration project is construction-ready when funding opportunities arise.
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