RGR Landscape worked with GEE to develop a restoration plan for the degraded Andre Brook in Tarrytown, NY, which was funded by a grant from the NYS Department of State under Title 11 of the Environmental Protection Fund. The primary goal of the project was to improve the ecological function of the brook and add natural resource value to the adjacent park by restoring important tidal and riparian habitat. The restoration plan substantially widened the brook and nearly doubled the area of intertidal habitat. Low salt marsh vegetation was planted below Mean High Water, which along with high salt marsh habitat, provide extremely productive areas for the nourishment and reproduction of marine life. The project also diverted stormwater from the adjacent commuter parking lots into vegetated swales that filter out pollutants before entering the stream, so the contaminated runoff no longer flows directly into the brook.
