Removing remnant agricultural features would allow water to flow naturally through the site again, allowing expansion of more valuable salt marsh habitats and promoting greater biodiversity.
The team had doubled in size between its first and second year, in which it raised $5,000 for clean water in one triumphant swim.
Projects will benefit the Agawam River and Little Buttermilk Bay in Plymouth, Wareham, and Bourne.
The sampling is needed for permitting to move forward on the Buttonwood-to-Bay project to restore stream habitat.
Deidre Tao gifted her painting Little Sippewissett Marsh to the Coalition as a thank you for our land protection and conservation work. It is being displayed in the learning center at the New Bedford headquarters.
Engineering design is expected to be completed this summer and dredging the fall of the following year.
Join Lilia Bartolotta, our Bay Science research assistant, as she collects water samples and records data for our monitoring efforts.
With our first-ever habitat management grant, the Coalition will continue the work of thinning the vegetation to restore grasslands and protect island residents.