The Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District will next week hold a ceremony celebrating the completion of the Unity Island Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project.
As reported, a ceremonial ribbon cutting event, and media site tour will take place at 1 pm, October 26, 2020.
The ceremony celebrates the completion of the Unity Island project that restored 10 acres of coastal wetland habitat.
It is an example of a much larger campaign for beneficial use of dredged material in the Great Lakes region.
“The Unity Island projects marry a couple of our mission areas: dredged material management and ecosystem restoration,” said Andrew Hannes , a biologist with the district. “We’re creatively using dredged material to build habitat and build a healthy ecosystem. We hope this is the first of many of these types of projects along the Great Lakes.”
The project supports the following: