RGR Landscape worked with NYC Parks & Recreation Natural Resources Group and the firm, Great Ecology & Environments, to create a half-acre of new tidal salt marsh habitat along the northern shore of Randall’s Island, where the Bronx Kill joins the East River. The project, at the direction of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, served as mitigation for Hudson River tidal area that was affected by a new pile-supported structure that RGR designed to complete the Riverside Park multi-use trail along the west side of Manhattan. To provide a suitable environment for the new habitat, a portion of the Bronx Kill shoreline was reconfigured to elevations that would allow tidal flow and support salt marsh vegetation. A new rip-rap berm was also constructed to diffuse wave action and protect the newly created embayment, which was planted with salt marsh grasses.
