Port Susan Restoration
300px|leftThe Nature Conservancy completed a dike setback that restored tidal inundation to 150 acres of abandoned farmland at the current river mouth on the Stillaguamish Delta in 2012. The Delta is the largest tidal wetland complex and freshwater input to the Port Susan Bay Ecosystem. The project site has subsided, and restoration is anticipated to allow sediment accretion, both on site and along the face of Florence Island. Ongoing monitoring of the site supported by the River Delta Adaptive Management Strategy will track recovery, evaluate sediment accretion rates, and how marsh abates wave energy.
Relationships
- involves organization: ngo
- located in: snohomish county
- located in: whidbey basin;stillaguamish
- related to: Marine Mammal Observations
- related to: barber 2014
- related to: delta sediment dynamics and vegetation
- related to: esrp
- related to: floodplain restoration
- related to: fuller & mcardle 2014
- related to: port susan bay ecosystem
- related to: river delta;hydrodynamics;channel structure;salmon
- related to: snohomish conservation district
- related to: stillaguamish delta
- related to: the nature conservancy
- related to: tnc
- related to: usgs
- related to: woo et al 2011
- related to: wwu
- related to: zis a ba restoration