SLIDE 1 Presentation Overview
- Habitat Enhancement Program
- About the program, history and achievements
- Project example
- New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project
- Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project
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SLIDE 2 About the Habitat Enhancement Program
enhancing fish and wildlife habitat
been established with Fisheries and Oceans Canada
infrastructure development opportunities with a healthy environment
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- The port authority started
enhancing habitat in the 1990s
- Since 2013, we have:
- Created or enhanced 13
habitat sites that would cover an area of more than 13 football fields (~10 hectares)
- Completed feasibility work for
- ver 100 hectares of potential
habitat enhancement
History of the Program and achievements
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SLIDE 5 Presentation Overview
- Habitat Enhancement Program
- About the program, history and achievements
- Project example
- New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project
- Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project
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Project example: New Brighton Park Shoreline Restoration Project
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New Brighton Park Shoreline Restoration Project Before construction – September 2016
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New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project Post-construction – September 2017
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New Brighton Park Shoreline Restoration Project April 2017
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New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project Planting – June 2017
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SLIDE 11 Presentation Overview
- Habitat Enhancement Program
- About the program, history and achievements
- Project example
- New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project
- Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project
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Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project
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Maplewood Mudflats Historic aerials (1946 & 1963)
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Maplewood Mudflats Historic aerials (1979 & 1997)
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~4.5 hectare size area within northeast basin
Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project
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Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project Preliminary concept N Inter ertidal idal flat Eelgr grass ss Rock ck reef ef
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- A concept could include enhancing a portion of the marine
basin into habitat consisting of intertidal mudflat, eelgrass beds, rock reefs or other productive habitat
- Would require fill material placement within the northeast
basin to raise the floor of the basin to an elevation that supports vegetation growth Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project Preliminary concept – artist’s illustration
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Next steps
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SLIDE 19 General discussion
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