Wetlands that need to be opened up to improved hydrology.

Near the Delaware River, Salem County

Near Alloway Creek, Salem County, NJ close to the Delaware River looking at potential land acquisitions to prevent development.

Fort Mott on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River near an area being considered for acquisition.

The Delaware side of the river, the Delaware Bridge is in the background.

Land being considered for protection, Salem County, NJ

The Delaware River at Fort Mott, the bridge is the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Clean up workers use absorbent material to clean-up and wipe down the shoreline. The workers are cleaning up after the World Prodigy tanker spilled 290,000 gallons of #2 home heating oil into Narragansett Bay.

Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site.

A boom is deployed to contain oil at the spill site.

A clean-up worker in the process of skimming oil as part of the clean-up process after the World Prodigy oil-spill.

Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI

Spill clean-up procedures. Close to 300,000 gallons of oil were spilled in Narragansett Bay, RI waters.

Spill clean-up procedures. Close to 300,000 gallons of oil were spilled in Narragansett Bay, RI waters.

Spill clean-up procedures. Close to 300,000 gallons of oil were spilled in Narragansett Bay, RI waters.

A collection of anenomes and star fish.

An American lobster (Homarus americanus) in very murky waters.

Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI

Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI

Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI

An aerial image of Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, RI.

An aerial image of Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, RI.

Fucus, a common plant found in Rhode Island coastal waters.

Common sea star and anenomes.

Anenomes.

An anenome.

A sea star in common eelgrass habitat in Rhode Island coastal waters.

A natural eelgrass bed off Sakonnet Point, RI. Eelgrass was one of the habitats affected by the oil spill.

Sea urchins and a tunicate.

Basic facts and figures about the World Prodigy oil spill incident.

A slide depicting the resources injured during the oil spill.

A slide showing restoration workers beginning to harvest eelgrass for use at a transplant site.

A beautiful clump of "pickle-weed or Salicornia grows in a rocky tidal pool in Prudence Island.

A drop sampler mounted on the bottom of a shallow draft boat. This sampling device is used to enclose a 1 - m2 area of salt marsh enabling researchers to measure the density of fishes and crustaceans on the marsh surface.

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A culvert, at Quivett Creek, that needs to be enlarged to enhance water flow. Increased flow will enhance anadromous fish and salt marsh habitat. Note the large hole in the existing metal culvert.

Quivett Creek, on the border of Dennis and Brewster, MA, is in a salt marsh that has been divided in two by a culvert and a small access road. Salt water flow was restricted by the road and the malfunctioning culvert. Restoration work will include enlarging the culvert and improving restricted water flow.

A culvert, at Quivett Creek, that needs to be enlarged to enhance water flow.

A close - up of the culvert that will be replaced to enhance anadromous fish habitat.

The degraded culvert that restricts water flow into the salt marsh at the Quivett Creek restoration site.

An overview of the marsh and the culvert that restricts water from flowing from Quivett Creek into the marsh. The preferred restoration choice was to create an open channel between the two sections of marsh but the homes in the foreground would have been impacted. Instead the culverts were enlarged. Part of the project includes raising the abandoned roadway surface to provide flood control

A malfunctioning culvert at the Quivett Creek marsh.

View of the concrete lower culvert that passes underneath Sea View Street. This lower pipe was installed at an invert below the adjacent creek bottoms and has partly filled in with sediment and debris.

The watershed at Quivett Creek also features a beautiful old cemetery and a pond that is used by anadromous alewives for spawning and juvenile rearing habitat.

An historic anadromous fish ladder that leads from Quivett Creek to the headwater pond where alewives spawn.

Eric Hutchins met with various restoration partners including the Lewis Berger group an engineering division that is offering pro bono services, a Town of Dennis representative, the state fisheries officer and others. The purpose of the pre restoration meeting was to assess restoration alternatives.

Large stands of Phragmites australis often indicate that salt water flow is restricted in marshes. This non-native grass is beautiful, but salt marshes in the northeastern United States should be comprised of Spartina grasses and other native salt marsh plants.

Eric Hutchins, NOAA, discusses restoration alternatives with a group of potential contractors and restoration partners.

A winter view of Quivett Creek, on the Brewster/Dennis line. Restoration is expected fall 2002.

The septic systems of the homes on the edge of Quivett Creek marsh might have been threatened by the creation of an open channel between the two marsh segments so restoration focused instead on enlarging culverts and removing sections of an access road that restricted water flow into the marsh.