Army Corps of Engineers to Begin Work on Gerritsen and Mill Creeks
Thank you to bagels, JD and blueMagoo for the following information concerning the Ecosystem Restoration Project ensuing at Gerritsen Creek:
From the US Army Corps of Engineers:
This ecosystem restoration project seeks to improve the aquatic and coastal grassland habitats located in the northeastern section of Marine Park, Brooklyn, NY near the junction of Gerritsen Creek and Mill Creek, immediately west of Floyd Bennett Field. The project purpose is to ameliorate the adverse impacts of past filling activities related to the construction, maintenance, and improvement of the large network of navigation channels within Jamaica Bay. The recommended plan is designed to increase the twice-daily tidal inundation across of the project site, and to convert the Phragmites dominated areas that lie adjacent to the existing salt marsh fringes to more healthy tidal ecosystems. The project will restore 31 acres of salt marsh and 23 acres of rare coastal grassland. Located adjacent the Marine Park Nature Center, this project will provide a highly visible and accessible contribution to the overall restoration of greater Jamaica Bay.
While the Army Corps of Engineers estimates the total construction cost of this project to be $6,650,000, the New York Post reports that this project will total $8 million. The nature trail will be closed throughout the duration of this restoration project.
The New York Post spoke to Dan Falt, project manager ACE’s New York District, who stated:
“We are working to restore the habitat,” stressed Falt, who said the project would encompass 67 acres adjacent to the nature center on the north side of Gerritsen Creek. In total, he went on, “We will be creating approximately 32 acres of marsh and 25 acres of coastal grassland.”
The entire project, Falt went on, will take approximately one year, with construction beginning early this month. The first step is grading, which, said Falt, will take place over the winter, with planting occurring in the spring, “So people will be able to see big changes rather quickly.”
As a result of the project, he added, “The nature trail will be closed to the public for the construction duration.”
However, once the project is complete, “There will be additional trail area,” and visitors will “be able to see a lot more, because the really tall phragmites will be gone,” Falt said.
Besides revamping the vegetation growing in the area, ACE will also be putting in what Falt called “features,” such as poles for osprey, in hope of attracting the birds to the area.
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Isn’t it terrible how those kids in that neighborhood defaced that signage? Just look at that grafitti! They should put cameras over there and send the little brats to jail. No wonder Marine Park can’t have bus shelters!
I guess our brats are as rotten as your brats. Oh, well.
It looks like initials, maybe they can locate the parents and drag them out of whatever bar they are hanging out on Flatbush Ave, or Ave S or Quentin Rd, and make them take responsibility for their children. It’s disgraceful! Oh and you should take notice of the sneakers that are hung from the telephone wires. Unlike when we were kids, it is now used by gangs to mark drug selling territory. ( take a look around any housing project) That pair of red and white ones on the corner of Stuart and Fillmore?, that makes MP Bloods territory. Congratulations! Now it doesn’t mean that the Bloods are doin’ the drug selling there, it means they are doin’ the supplyin’. I think it’s time the lace curtain set put down their martinis and start paying attention to what their kids are up to.
Ok, now I’m really offended. The curtains over here in God’s Country are not made of lace. They are made of the finest silk money can buy.
lol, Bagels.
That pair of red and white ones on the corner of Stuart and Fillmore?, that makes MP Bloods territory. Congratulations! Now it doesn’t mean that the Bloods are doin’ the drug selling there, it means they are doin’ the supplyin’.
Well I grew up on Stuart St. between R & Fillmore & I find it very hard to believe that it is now “blood” drug selling territory even though things have changed a bit since the ’60s. I guess if the kids threw up blue sneakers it would be “crip” territory or green sneakers means the Westies are moving in?
Gimme a break please.
BTW,
I haven’t heard the term “lace curtain” anyone since my Grammy used to complain about stuck up Irish-Americans in that fashion.
Like I said, take a drive by any housing project and it is the same. I commented on it to a cop friend, about all the sneakers hanging, and that is what I was told. And yes, MP is Bloods territory, as is the Sheepshead Housing project, and Canarsie is Crips. MP is in the middle. If you think these gangs are amateurs or a joke, think again. My comments about the lace curtain , martini set were directed at Bagels who loves to take cheap shots at Gerritsen every chance he gets, so I didn’t want the Graffitti in MP to go unnoticed. I would also like to point out, in case either of you missed it, that the recent arrests in GB for graffitti were of Marine Park 20 year olds. We have enough riff raff of our own in the Beach. Please keep your losers in MP.
Commenting that I don’t like Victoria’s Pizza is not a “cheap shot”!