Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
New York City is facilitating the restoration of critical coastal resources by establishing the Saw Mill Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank. This publicly operated wetland bank in Staten Island is near industrially developed land. Extensive dumping of trash and historic fill had occurred throughout the Site for decades.
WSP’s sediment samples indicated that prior to restoration, the Site posed an ecological risk to wildlife. WSP completed the planning, design, construction administration and post—construction monitoring to remove over 40,000 cubic yards of contaminated soils and 40 truckloads of tires and debris from the 54-acre site to create tidal creeks and marshes planted with native vegetation. WSP’s four years of post-construction sediment and biota tissue results are comparable to baseline restoration conditions, suggesting that the wetland has not been re-contaminated.
In this webinar, we present an overview of the project and describe some of the lessons learned that are applicable to habitat restoration in urban areas. We discuss both the benefits and challenges of this restoration project, which could be adopted on other projects of a similar nature.
This webinar is aimed at restoration scientists, planners and engineers, stakeholders interested in wetland restoration, particularly in urban areas, clients involved restoration activities and those interested in sediment/biota sampling and reducing ecological contamination.
Presenter: Peg McBrien, Vice President Ecological Engineering, Technical Fellow, WSP in the U.S
Watch the video about the project: youtu.be/EsK0MR8Agzo
New York City is facilitating the restoration of critical coastal resources by establishing the Saw Mill Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank. This publicly operated wetland bank in Staten Island is near industrially developed land. Extensive dumping of trash and historic fill had occurred throughout the Site for decades.
WSP’s sediment samples indicated that prior to restoration, the Site posed an ecological risk to wildlife. WSP completed the planning, design, construction administration and post—construction monitoring to remove over 40,000 cubic yards of contaminated soils and 40 truckloads of tires and debris from the 54-acre site to create tidal creeks and marshes planted with native vegetation. WSP’s four years of post-construction sediment and biota tissue results are comparable to baseline restoration conditions, suggesting that the wetland has not been re-contaminated.
In this webinar, we present an overview of the project and describe some of the lessons learned that are applicable to habitat restoration in urban areas. We discuss both the benefits and challenges of this restoration project, which could be adopted on other projects of a similar nature.
This webinar is aimed at restoration scientists, planners and engineers, stakeholders interested in wetland restoration, particularly in urban areas, clients involved restoration activities and those interested in sediment/biota sampling and reducing ecological contamination.
Presenter: Peg McBrien, Vice President Ecological Engineering, Technical Fellow, WSP in the U.S
Watch the video about the project: youtu.be/EsK0MR8Agzo
