Presentation Overview

• Habitat Enhancement Program

• About the program, history and achievements

• Project example • New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project

• Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project

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About the Habitat Enhancement Program

• Proactively creating and enhancing fish and wildlife habitat

• A formal Agreement has been established with Fisheries and Oceans Canada

• Balancing future infrastructure development opportunities with a healthy environment

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• The port authority started enhancing habitat in the 1990s

• Since 2013, we have:

• Created or enhanced 13 habitat sites that would cover an area of more than 13 football fields (~10 hectares)

• Completed feasibility work for over 100 hectares of potential habitat enhancement

History of the Program and achievements

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Presentation Overview

• Habitat Enhancement Program

• About the program, history and achievements

• Project example • New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project

• Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project

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Project example: New Brighton Park Shoreline Restoration Project

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New Brighton Park Shoreline Restoration ProjectBefore construction – September 2016

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New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration ProjectPost-construction – September 2017

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New Brighton Park Shoreline Restoration ProjectApril 2017

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New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration ProjectPlanting – June 2017

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Presentation Overview

• Habitat Enhancement Program

• About the program, history and achievements

• Project example • New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project

• Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project

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Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project

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Maplewood Mudflats Historic aerials (1946 & 1963)

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Maplewood MudflatsHistoric aerials (1979 & 1997)

~4.5 hectare

size area within

northeast basin

Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project

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Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration ProjectPreliminary concept

NIntertidal flat

Eelgrass

Rock reef

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• A concept could include enhancing a portion of the marine basin into habitat consisting of intertidal mudflat, eelgrass beds, rock reefs or other productive habitat

• Would require fill material placement within the northeast basin to raise the floor of the basin to an elevation that supports vegetation growth

Proposed Maplewood Marine Restoration Project Preliminary concept – artist’s illustration

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Next steps

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General discussion

• Questions?

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