Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge Salt Marsh Restoration
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is leading the restoration of salt marsh at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
The Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 2,550 acres on the south shore of Long Island and hosts numerous types of wildlife among its oak-pine woodlands, grasslands, and fresh, brackish, and saltwater wetlands. A team of Tudor Perini and AKRF was selected for the project.
We performed natural resources studies and data collection, prepared restoration design plans, prepared and submitted environmental permit applications, and provided construction oversight.
Study plan elements included topographic survey, vegetative cover mapping, diagnosing hydraulic impairments to the marshes, collecting and analyzing tidal data, identifying bio-benchmark elevations for waterlogged and healthy marsh plain areas, and mapping existing flow patterns in the marsh creeks and ditches.
