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Project targets stormwater issue through partnership
Annapolis (May 6, 2005) - County Executive Janet S. Owens and the Anne Arundel County, Department of Public Works, Environmental Engineering Division (DPW), today announced the completion of the North Grey’s Bog restoration project. A ceremony to celebrate the final planting of the project was held in the Sylvan View Community in Pasadena.
In partnership with DPW, the Sylvan View Community Association and the Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center, students and staff from area schools helped restore the area with plants native to this area. The schools that were represented included Chesapeake Bay Middle School Grade 6, and Bodkin Elementary School, Grade 3. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Watershed Restoration program and the State Highway Administration were also an integral part of the partnership that was celebrated at today’s event.
This project consisted of removing 4000 cubic yards of previously deposited dredged materials and phragmites from the project site and placing a step pool and cobble weir configuration as well as planting Anne Arundel County native wetland plants that will raise the water quality at the tidal interface. This will take the 2.4 acres of existing phrag marsh and restore the sea level fen that occupied the area previous to the dredging. The drainage area that this Bog will help treat for water quality is 142 acres. The design and inspection engineers were BayLand Consultants & Designers, Inc. and Underwood & Associates and the contractor was MRC Construction.
The North Greys Bog Restoration Project is another in a series of successful Chesapeake Connection partnerships that demonstrates the importance of protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Previously completed Chesapeake Connection projects include the Shipleys Choice stormwater management facility, the Edgewater Elementary School wetland complex, and Howard’s Branch and most recently, the Wilelinor Stream Valley Improvement Project. The next project in this series is planned for North Carolina Avenue Wetland Recovery.
In addition to the Department of Public Works, Sylvan View Community Association, and Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center, the Wilelinor Stream Valley Improvement Project is supported Maryland State Highway Administration Environmental Program, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Watershed Restoration, and the Anne Arundel County Public School’s Chesapeake Connections.
The County funded $860,000 through the capital improvement budget. The state shared the cost of the project in the amount of $250,000.
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