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Bonney Cove marsh restoration: staff recommends delay after permitting agencies find submerged‑vegetation obstacles
Summary
City staff updated the council on permitting problems that have halted construction of a planned Bonney Cove marsh restoration — designed to slow wind‑driven Back Bay flooding — and presented options including a staff recommendation to delay while pursuing a legislative carve‑out.
City staff updated the council on permitting problems that have halted construction of a planned Bonney Cove marsh restoration — a nature‑based project intended to slow wind‑driven flooding in the Southern Rivers watershed — and asked for direction on next steps.
Toni Utterback, city engineer, said the project had been selected after alternatives screening and was designed to restore marsh terraces and submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in Bonney Cove. Staff described the scope as creating 41 terraces, establishing about 14 acres of upland and 13 acres of marsh habitat, and planting more than 130,000 native plants. The project is included in the November…
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