Roaring Point Park Shoreline Restoration

 

This fall, volunteers from the Friends of the Nanticoke River, the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Salisbury University will assist the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Wicomico County Parks Office staff in a shoreline restoration project at Roaring Point Park.

 

 

Approximately 100 feet of shoreline along the Nanticoke River damaged by Hurricane Isabel will be restored using bio-engineering techniques that minimize shoreline “hardening” and emphasize the preservation of habitat for aquatic and water-dependent animals and plants.    Funding for this project is being provided by a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. The Friends of the Nanticoke will also be providing two interpretive signs for the park (with partial support from the same grant) to encourage visitors to treat the park well and to provide some information on the river’s history.

 

Work is scheduled to begin in early September and will conclude by the end of November.  If you are interested in volunteering for this project, please call Alan Girard at the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance at 410-873-3045.