The state Coastal Resources Management Council is giving $50,000 to Save the Bay and the Narragansett Estuary Program to update mapping of Narragansett Bay’s underwater aquatic vegetation and hire an expert to evaluate the eelgrass cover on the bay.
The project, slated to begin this month or next, is one of three funded by the CRMC at its meeting last month. The agency is also contributing $35,000 to build a fish ladder at a privately owned dam in South Kingstown that would restore a river herring run to Factory Brook and could also benefit sea-run brook trout; that project, slated to begin this fall and cost $120,500, also includes other state and federal partners.
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The CRMC also approved a third award, of $14,725, for the Rhode Island Coastal Wetlands Inventory project, which will catalogue degraded or filled coastal wetlands from the state’s western border to Narragansett Bay, to identify opportunities for future restoration projects.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct the inventory and release a report with details of each site studied. Congress is providing $65,000 toward the project, which is expected to cost $130,000.
All three awards are funded through the Rhode Island Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Trust Fund, which was established by the state after the 1996 North Cape oil spill.
