$50K grant to recreate salt marsh at Riverside Park in New Bedford

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A $50,000 grant will help reconnect Riverside Park's pond to the Acushnet River, creating a salt marsh.

The project is part of a larger effort to restore the New Bedford Harbor, a Superfund site that is now 99% cleaned up.

This restoration will create a dynamic, healthy salt marsh habitat and is part of the larger RiverWalk recreational path.

NEW BEDFORD — Riverside Park’s standing pond is going to be reconnected to the Acushnet River to recreate a salt marsh and restore habitat in a project that’s getting a $50,000 helping hand.

That $50,000 grant to the New Bedford Parks, Recreation and Beaches Department is coming through the Southeast New England Program .

It’s one of 33 grant awards totaling $1.5 million that were celebrated at an event held at Fort Taber