Dennis Salt Marsh Restoration Part of Renaissance

"Marsh Restorations Undue Years of Harm"
Cape Cod Times, May 5, 2008
By Doug Fraser

DENNIS -- When it is dedicated June 13, the $1.5 million Bridge Street bridge project in East Dennis will officially become the largest saltwater marsh restoration in Massachusetts, with 65 acres of reclaimed marsh.

But that is really just the beginning. Fourteen more salt marsh projects are already in the works, including the granddaddy of them all, the largest such project on the East Coast: the restoration of an estimated 1,000 acres of the Herring River marsh in Wellfleet, which cost $12 million to $15 million.

In Massachusetts, especially on Cape Cod, it is the renaissance of salt marsh restoration. ... over the past decade Cape towns, working with federal, state, county and private individuals and organizations, have been restoring their access to the sea. Since 1994, 16 Cape salt marshes totaling 330 acres have been rejuvenated ... ©

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