Mermaid Creek Salt Marsh Restoration

Figure 1. Mermaid Creek Salt Marsh, looking out into Roberts Bay in Sidney, BC.

Figure 1. Mermaid Creek Salt Marsh, looking out into Roberts Bay in Sidney, BC.

Peninsula Streams Society

Type of Restoration Freshwater - Stream Restoration
Project Leaders Peninsula Streams Society
Location Mermaid Creek
Watershed Mermaid Creek Watershed
Main Goal Blue carbon sequestration, enhance productive habitats for fish and wildlife, and promote natural protection for upland areas from strong storms through the buffering of wave energy.
Restoration Done Beach Nourishment, salt marsh restoration, plantings, eco-cultural fencing
Year 2023, Ongoing
added on April 27, 2023
RUSH - Protect from Flooding

Mapping restoration sites as described by Peninsula Streams Society for the RUSH Initiative

Where?

Figure 1. Mermaid Creek Salt Marsh, looking out into Roberts Bay in Sidney, BC.
Figure 3. Mermaid Creek Eco-cultural Fencing, completed September 2022 and subsequent planting March 2023. → Note: 500 Lyngby’s Sedges were planted in planting areas throughout the upper marsh. This grass-like species actively builds the marsh by stilling water with its long vegetation allowing sediment to deposit which it then fixes with its roots which overtime rebuilds marsh banks.
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