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Evaluating the re-use of dredged sediments as building material for habitat restoration

East coast map pointing to Chesapeake Bay with an inset of Swan Island. A second inset zooms to Swan Island showing dunes and areas of low and high marsh.NCCOS and Maryland Department of Natural Resources are evaluating the re-use of dredged sediments as building material for habitat restoration and shoreline stabilization. In 2018, they began restoring the footprint of Chesapeake Bay’s Swan Island. A new publication describes the monitoring results from the initial three years of this effort: 

https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/new-research-describes-performance-of-nature-based-solution-at-swan-island-md/