Marsh Restoration – Thin-Layer Placement

Coastal marsh with patches of emergent grasses separated by shallow open water under an overcast sky.

Pierce Marsh

Project Sheet Location: Pierce Marsh, Texas Year: 2022 Project Type(s): Marsh Restoration Project Description: This project addresses the widespread degradation of Pierce Marsh in Galveston Read More …

Leafless trees rise above dense marsh grasses beside a tidal creek under a clear blue sky.

Jekyll Creek

Project Sheet Location: Jekyll Creek, Georgia Year: 2019 Project Type(s): Marsh Restoration Project Description: This project addresses marsh degradation along Jekyll Creek, Georgia, caused by Read More …

Expansive tidal marsh with winding waterways, shallow pools, and patches of vegetation, with distant hills on the horizon.

Elkhorn Slough

Project Sheet Location: Elkhorn Slough, California Year: 2015 Project Type(s): Marsh Restoration Project Description: This project addresses the significant loss of tidal marshes in California’s Read More …

Deer Island

Project Sheet Location: Deer Island, Mississippi Year: 2010 Project Type(s): Marsh Restoration Project Description: This project addresses severe erosion and marsh degradation at Deer Island, Read More …

Sediment slurry is sprayed across a vegetated tidal marsh during thin layer placement operations.

Avalon

Project Sheet Location: Avalon Marsh, New Jersey Year: 2014 Project Type(s): Marsh Restoration Project Description: This project focuses on the restoration of 52 acres of Read More …

Grayscale aerial image of a wetland experiment showing a central sediment-addition zone divided into Blocks 1–4, with Reference Blocks 5 and 6 in adjacent marsh areas and a 0.55-kilometer scale bar.

Bayou Lafourche, LA

Project Sheet Location: Lafourche Parish, Leeville, LA, US Year: 2002 Project Type(s): Marsh restoration Project Description: Seven and a half hectares of salt marshes south Read More …

Aerial image of a coastal wetland experiment showing a source canal and multiple small study plots labeled reference, low, medium, and high, distributed among fragmented marsh vegetation and open water.

Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary

Project Sheet Location: Vermillion Parish, LA, US Year: 2008 Project Type(s): Marsh restoration Project Description: In July 2008, dredged material was mechanically pumped from a Read More …

Map of southeastern Louisiana showing the Mississippi River, New Orleans, Barataria Bay, Bayou Lafourche, and the Gulf of Mexico, with locations labeled Bonnet Carré, Davis Pond, and Caernarvon and arrows indicating water diversions.

Barataria Basin, LA

Project Sheet Location: Lafourche Parish, LA, US Year: 1986 Project Type(s): Marsh restoration Project Description: In 1986, approximately 17 square meters of salt marshes located Read More …

Black-and-white photograph of a floating sediment-placement vessel spraying two large arcs of slurry in opposite directions across a shallow wetland restoration area.

Northern Mississippi River Delta, LA

Project Sheet Location: Plaquemines Parish, Venice, LA, US Year: 1996 Project Type(s): Marsh restoration Project Description: The salt marsh that received dredged material is located Read More …

Grayscale aerial image of a coastal wetland study site showing a reference area and sediment-addition zones labeled trace, low, medium, and high, with a 1-kilometer scale and north arrow.

Southern Mississippi River Delta, LA

Project Sheet Location: Plaquemines Parish, Venice, LA, US Year: 1992 Project Type(s): Marsh restoration Project Description: The salt marsh receiving dredged material is located 106 Read More …