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Project Title
Strategies for Assessment and Restoration of Resilient Urban Tidal Wetland
Project Description
NYC Department of Parks and Recreation is responsible for managing nearly half of the tidal wetlands in NYC. It will develop restoration monitoring protocols to quantify selected parameters that more fully reflect wetland health and function such as organic matter accumulation, nutrient retention, and below ground biomass production. It will statistically evaluate data from naturally occurring salt marshes and restored marshes of varying types and ages in order to: (1) quantify the functional capacity of different urban salt marshes; (2) develop new monitoring guidelines for restoration projects; and (3) improve tidal marsh restoration practices. NYC Parks will review and analyze the design, performance and function of at least six past restoration projects constructed in NYC over the past fifteen years. It will examine and compare substrate conditions, pre-restoration, post-restoration and reference site vegetation cover data, design elements, management actions and evidence of algae, sedimentation, erosion and other processes at all sites. It will develop an experimental restoration design plan for an up-coming restoration site project, The proposal will help advance NYC’s Wetland Strategy, a part of PlaNYC, and will provide transferable tools for wetlands protection in increasingly urban areas.
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Natural Areas Conservancy
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Project Deliverables
Salt Marsh Restoration Assessment Report, Salt Marsh Restoration Monitoring Guidelines, Salt Marsh Restoration Design Guidelines
Attachments
   
ReportOne_NYCParks_SaltMarshRestorationAssessmentReport.pdf
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Peer Reviewed?
Final Report
Salt Marsh Restoration Assessment Report, Salt Marsh Restoration Monitoring Guidelines, Salt Marsh Restoration Design Guidelines
Report Attachment(s)
   
ReportTwo_NYCParks_SaltMarshRestorationDesignGuidelines.pdf
     
NYC Parks_ExperimentalDesignPlan_FINAL.pdf
     
NYCParks_MonitoringGuidelines.pdf
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Environmental and Other Project Outcomes
Does this grant address No Net Loss of Wetlands under Section 404?
Yes
Wetland Acres Created (if total known): Total
Wetland Acres Restored (if total known): Total
Wetland Acres Protected (if total known): Total
Does this grant address Net Increase of Wetlands?
No
Wetland Acres Created (if total known): Total
Wetland Acres Restored (if total known): Total
Wetland Acres Protected (if total known): Total
Does this grant address wetland monitoring/assessment of wetland
function/condition?
Yes
Wetland Acres Monitored/Assessed (if total known): Total
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