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1) Queen's Landing Council of Unit Owners: $50,000
Chester, MD
This project will create a low tide emergent rock sill with a sand beach strand behind it to stabilize the existing eroding slope. Native vegetation and an exposed beach face would be the resulting completed project within the cove. The main partners include the Eastern Shore Resource Conservation & Development Council.
2) Town of Cape Charles, VA: $50,000
Cape Charles, VA
This project is located at a public beach and will involve the placement of approximately 46,000 yards of sand, construction of three breakwaters and an attached stone spur and dune construction and planting. This is part of a larger town project to stabilize approximately 2,400 linear feet of Chesapeake Bay frontage utilizing breakwaters, sand nourishment and coastal vegetation. This project nearly connects with the Bay Creek shoreline protection project to the northeast, which when combined, provide protection and habitat for over a half mile of shoreline. Additional funding for the project will be allotted through the Virginia Municipal League Bond Fund.
3) Alice Ferguson Foundation: $50,000
Accokeek, MD
This grant will support the design work of a three phase project, which will result in a living shoreline along a 0.6 mile segment of the Potomac River at Piscataway Park. The area includes rapidly eroding cliffs, tidal marsh and beach. Due to prehistoric and historic archeological resources buried along the shore, this area has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. The site is also in the scenic "view shed" of the historic site of Mount Vernon. Main partners include the National Park Service and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
4) St. John's College: $50,000
Annapolis, MD
This living shoreline project will remove 680 feet of structural bulkhead along College Creek and restore the area to a natural wetland and shrub buffer. This involves grading the shoreline to a natural slope and planting native vegetation on a planting terrace. The project site is the campus of St. John's College in Annapolis, MD and it will serve as a field site for student and faculty laboratory work. Main partners include the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Department of Natural Resources, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Fish America Foundation, Maryland Department of the Environment and the Bates Foundation.
5) University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: $49,886
Cambridge, MD
The objectives of this project are to quantify the temperature increase caused by engineered structures in living shoreline projects; to determine the effect of temperature on SAV and fish communities; and to suggest living shoreline designs that minimize water heating in living shoreline projects. This study will provide information that can be used to improve future living shorelines.
6) Environmental Concern: $40,490
St. Michaels, Maryland
The project will construct a saltwater marsh along the westerly shoreline of San Domingo Creek Public Park in St. Michaels, MD. Implementation funds will be used for this living shoreline project to create 375 feet of shoreline, and 11,200 square feet of marsh. This involves the removal of a partially failing timber bulkhead adjacent to the town landing dock, as well as invasives removal and the rebuilding of the failing canoe launch area. This project builds on an earlier adjacent living shoreline project and creates a 1,400 foot contiguous living shoreline. Main partners include the National Resource Conservation Service, St. Michaels Elementary School and the Talbot County Master Gardener program.
7) City of Salisbury: $49,990
Salisbury, MD
Salisbury's project will create wetland habitat and living shoreline restoration at a public park downtown. The project will grade banks, backfill biologs and plant a 10 foot buffer, which will create 2,100 feet of shoreline and 20,000 square feet of wetland habitat. Main partners include the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Other partners include Americorps, Maryland Conservation Corps, Salisbury University and the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, among others.
8) Maryland Department of Natural Resources-Watershed Services: $15,500
Sharptown, MD
This project involves design funds for approximately 650 feet of shoreline along the east side of the Nanticoke River in Sharptown, MD under the Route 313 Bridge. This effort is part of a larger project to enhance the adjacent riverfront park. Main partners include the town of Sharptown, Eastern Shore Resource Conservation & Development Council and Wicomico County.
9) West River Center: $37,590
West River, MD
This private camp project will restore tidal wetlands along 173 linear feet of degraded shoreline. This is part of a plan to eventually re-establish nearly 2,000 linear feet of contiguous natural shoreline. Timber bulkhead will be removed and 4,325 square feet of tidal marsh will be created. Following construction of stone containment structures and sand placement, coconut coir logs and wetland plants will be added. Main partners include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anne Arundel County Public Schools and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
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