Marine Environmental Services
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Project Summary >
Deltaport Third Berth (DP3) Container Terminal Expansion Project – Habitat Compensation Monitoring
2007 - Current
January 01, 1900
British Columbia
In conjunction with GL Williams and Associates Ltd., Archipelago designed a long term marine habitat compensation monitoring program to verify the implementation and biological effectiveness of compensation habitats constructed to address unavoidable habitat impacts associated with the Deltaport Third Berth terminal expansion project. The three compensatory habitat components included in the monitoring program are 1) the creation and enhancement of intertidal habitats along the eastern side of the terminal approach causeway, 2) Tsawwassen salt marsh restoration that includes log removal and tidal channel revitalization and, 3) the stabilization of the large sandbar associated with the dendritic tidal channels in the inter-causeway area of Roberts Bank.
Key Features:
- Long term environmental monitoring program design
- Monitoring of changes in species abundance and species diversity/richness in mud flat, salt marsh, stable rock surfaces and vegetated backshore habitats
- Beach seine fish surveys, benthic invertebrate and sediment sampling, eelgrass distribution and quantification, sand lance and surf smelt spawning surveys and macroalgae and epibenthic invertebrate surveys
- Monitoring of changes in restored salt marsh such as water quality, fish utilization and colonization by salt marsh vegetation
- Pre- and post-construction marine species/community and habitat trend analysis
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