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Oysters Get New Habitat from Dam Pieces
November 1, 2011 | Dams & Dam Removal, Restoring Rivers
Serena McClain
Director, River Restoration, Federal Grants
Concrete from the Simkins Dam is headed to its new home today thanks to NOAA and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
The dam, which originally blocked more than 22 miles of habitat for migratory fish in the Patapsco River, was removed in December 2010 due to the efforts of American Rivers, the NOAA Restoration Center, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and other partners.
As a result of some innovative partnerships and outside-the-box thinking, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is giving the material new life. They will place the processed concrete at the mouth of the Chester River to form a two-acre oyster reef. Once placement is complete, four million young oysters, known as spat, are to be planted on the new reef.
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Submitted by Kendall Baer at: November 4, 2011
I was one of the operators on the Simkins dam project and i am glad to see the concrete was used in a good way to help nature and not placed in a landfill. Keep up the good work on ideas like this and hopefully other projects we do can benefit nature as well.