Belcher St. Managed Realignment Site

To read more about Nature-based solutions and the restoration process at Belcher Street Marsh, check out this StoryMap by Undergraduate Student (Honours), Kailey Nichols.

Awards and Accolades

Engineering With Nature - An Atlas, V3

The Belcher Street Marsh was selected as project in the third version of the Engineering with Nature Atlas, highlighting this creative and innovative applied nature-based project. The Atlas is an initiative of the of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Read more about the project here: Belcher Street Marsh - Issuu

To download or order a copy of the Atlas, visit: Engineering With Nature An Atlas, Volume 3 - Engineering With Nature

Engineering With Nature: An Atlas, Volume 3 is available at Knowledge Core, ERDC’s digital respository:Tritinger, A. S., Z. Hubbard, C. E. Chambers, B. C. Suedel, E. M. Bourne, E. B. Moynihan, R. K. Mohan, and J. K. King. 2024. Engineering With Nature : An Atlas, Volume 3. ERDC SR-24-2. Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. https://hdl.handle.net/11681/48453.

Clean50 Project Spotlight

To read more about the Belcher Street Marsh, check out this Clean 50 Project write-up: Restoring the Belcher Street Marsh | Clean50

RESTORATION TRAJECTORY: SPOTLIGHT ON VEGETATION RECOVERY

Tidal wetland restoration follows an expected trajectory of three phases: transition, establishment, and equilibrium. The Belcher Street site underwent a notably rapid revegetation, going from being a mudflat in 2018 to only having 17% bare ground in Year 2 of restoration (2019). By Year 3 (2020), bare ground was down to 4%, with nearly 0% bare ground by Year 4 of restoration (2021).

Revegetation of the Belcher Street site from post-realignment (2018) to Year 3 of restoration (2020).

This rapid revegetation was due to several key factors, including the vegetation present prior to restoration, the position of the site in the tidal frame, and the high rates of sedimentation at the site that were very beneficial for vegetation recovery.

Belcher Street Marsh Dyke Realignment and Tidal Wetland Restoration Project

Read the case study created as part of the Making Room for Movement project.

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