A huge milestone in the restoration of Discovery Bay was achieved in October 2014 with the completion of the Maynard Nearshore Restoration Project. This project has been 10 years in the making, with a lot of meetings to attend and permits to write, but we are now able to sit back and observe the benefits of this project for salmon and wildlife.

Some stats from this project:

Photo credit: Rebecca Benjamin, NOSC

• Removed 1 defunct tidegate to improve access to a lagoon
• Transformed the 1 acre freshwater Cherry Pond into a one acre pocket estuary and salt marsh
• Maximized the habitat value of 2 small freshwater drainages at their interface with the bay

Photo credit: Rebecca Benjamin, NOSC

• Removed two 110' creosote railway trestles, one 70' trestle, and one 25' trestle
• 258 tons of contaminants removed from the nearshore

Photo credit: Rebecca Benjamin, NOSC

• 1,900 tons of rip-rap and armoring removed along 2,000 feet of shoreline
• Removed fill from 2 acres of beach and re-created a stable beach slope favorable to migrating juvenile salmon and forage fish spawning

Photo credit: Joel Rogers Photography

• Removed invasive upland vegetation. Planted 5,000 dunegrass plugs and 800 trees and shrubs in November 2014. A total of 8,320 plants will be planted on this site.

Please enjoy this video of the project during construction. It was filmed by Jim Fox, a NOSC volunteer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGuONQbLQ28&feature=youtu.be