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Potential Wetland Restoration at Bridge St. Fairhaven, MA

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Background

Project Overview:

This 12.6 acre site was formerly the Fairhaven Drive-in Theater. Prior to the theater construction in the 1950s, the site was a wetland and wet meadow. Currently the site is being used as an illegal dumping ground for trash and appliances. The Buzzards Bay NEP has proposed restoring the site to its pre-Drive-In theater wetland conditions.

The restored wetland will become an urban natural greenway and habitat. It will also be used to help treat stormwater discharging to coastal waters. It is expected that the restored site will become an outdoor nature classroom for students at the Hastings Middle School on the adjoining parcel.

Restoration Activities:

Purchase land, remove asphalt and fill, create wetlands and pond, plant wetland species.

Costs:

Land purchase: (donation possible?): $175,000

Fill removal and disposal: $300,000

Soil, plantings, and landscaping: $100,000

TOTAL: $575,000

Our program was established in 1985 after Congress designated Buzzards Bay an "estuary of national significance." We joined the NEP in 1987. Our mission is to protect and restore water quality and living resources in Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed through the implementation of the Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. Click to read more.

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