{
  "projectDescription": "Save the Sound, NOAA's Restoration Center, Restore America's Estuaries, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and Connecticut College conducted an experimental marsh restoration project at the Fivemile River salt marsh in Darien, CT. This \"drowning\" tidal marsh, located near the mouth of the Fivemile River, has experienced a dramatic loss of marsh habitat over the past several decades. Approximately two-thirds of the marsh, once covered in smooth cordgrass, has been converted to an unvegetated, eroding mud flat. Save the Sound used sediment traps in two plots to encourage the accumulation of sediments on the marsh surface to restore low marsh elevations and then planted native Long Island Sound cordgrass on each plot.",
  "program": "Community-based Restoration",
  "name": "Fivemile River Tidal Wetland Restoration",
  "id": "370",
  "state": "Connecticut",
  "state_abbr": "CT",
  "region": "NER - Northeast",
  "constructionStartDate": "2006-04-24 00:00:00.0",
  "nepaStatus": "Complete",
  "nepaCompliance": "Programmatic EA for CRP",
  "fedLeverage": "0",
  "nonFedLeverage": "20370",
  "accompReportStatus": "Completed",
  "accompReportDate": "2006-04-24 00:00:00.0",
  "accompAcresMilesFlag": "Y",
  "accompVolFlag": "Y",
  "accompDebrisFlag": "N",
  "status": "Completed",
  "locations": [
    {
      "latitude": "41.0652",
      "longitude": "-73.4472",
      "county": "Fairfield County",
      "city": "Darien",
      "congDistrict": "4",
      "riverBasin": "Connecticut Coastal",
      "huc": "11000060404"
    }
  ],
  "habitats": [
    {
      "name": "tidal wetland",
      "fiscalYear": "2006",
      "actAcresRehabCnt": "0.1"
    }
  ],
  "species": [
    {
      "species": "alterniflora",
      "genus": "Spartina",
      "commonName": "Cordgrass, smooth",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "heteroclitus",
      "genus": "Fundulus",
      "commonName": "Mummichog",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "menidia",
      "genus": "Menidia",
      "commonName": "Silverside, atlantic",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "patens",
      "genus": "Spartina",
      "commonName": "Cordgrass, marshhay",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    }
  ],
  "partners": [
    {
      "name": "Restore America's Estuaries"
    },
    {
      "name": "Save the Sound"
    },
    {
      "name": "Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fivemile River Harbor Commission"
    },
    {
      "name": "Town of Darien"
    },
    {
      "name": "Connecticut College"
    }
  ],
  "strategies": [
    {
      "name": "Does not fall under a strategy",
      "primaryFlag": "Y"
    }
  ],
  "photos": [
    {
      "id": "3621",
      "name": "3621_F7289_Fivemile.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "2",
      "caption": "Sediment traps, consisting of biodegradable coir fibers, are expected to trap sediment and re-establish salt marsh elevations in the Fivemile River.",
      "credit": "Richard Orson",
      "date": "4/1/2006",
      "imageType": "Project Photo"
    },
    {
      "id": "3622",
      "name": "3622_F14974_Install.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "1",
      "caption": "Project partners use a boat to deliver and install biologs to the restoration site during high tide.",
      "credit": "Richard Osron",
      "date": "4/1/2006",
      "imageType": "Project Photo"
    }
  ],
  "techniques": [
    {
      "name": "Erosion control"
    }
  ],
  "funding": [
    {
      "mechanism": "Restore America's Estuaries",
      "activityType": "Restoration",
      "fyAwarded": "2001",
      "noaaContribution": "19,820.0",
      "noaaFundingFlag": "N",
      "otherNonFedContribution": "0.0",
      "partnerContribution": "0.0",
      "stateContribution": "0.0",
      "sourceProgram": "CRP - Community-based Restoration Program",
      "partner": {
        "name": "Save the Sound"
      }
    }
  ]
}