Bird Island Cove Shore Protection and Marsh Restoration Project

Project Description

This project finalized engineering from the previous phase and construct approximately 8,820 linear feet of rock breakwaters and potentially approximately 13,500 linear feet of floatation channels at Bird Island Cove. This project will protect and enhance existing estuarine marsh habitats and protect up to 85 acres of natural estuarine marsh complex, including 67 acres of intertidal emergent marsh interspersed with 120 acres of shallow open water seagrass beds, and 18 acres of vegetated and non-vegetated sand flats. The project may also enhance up to 12 acres of restored marsh mounds. In addition, the breakwater will also create 17,640 linear feet of three-dimensional hard-structure habitat for fisheries species.