A project to restore 10 acres of the Hanover Street Wetlands broke ground — or marsh — on Friday.
It’s part of the Middle Branch Resiliency Initiative Wetland Restoration Project which eventually seeks to restore 11 miles, and 50 acres, of wetlands across the Middle Branch area: including around Brooklyn, Cherry Hill, Westport and the Baltimore Peninsula. It’s the largest coastal restoration project in the state.
“We are bringing nature back to neighborhoods from whom it was taken away and protecting those same neighborhoods from storms, flooding, and erosion,” said Brad Rogers, the executive director of the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership.
Multiple speakers noted that waterfront investment in Baltimore City has historically happened around the Inner Harbor, much less in more southern neighborhoods.
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