In partnership with the city of Toledo, the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority led a project to restore Clark Island and Delaware/Horseshoe Islands in the Maumee River of Ohio, as reported by The Blade.
“The islands were disappearing,” explained Mary Mertz, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The department contributed $8 million to the project.
The islands had experienced significant erosion over the past few decades, losing a great deal of land mass. The $13.5 million restoration of 63 acres of islands is the largest wildlife restoration project that has ever been undertaken in the Maumee River. The islands were rebuilt and fortified, and a plan was put in place to prevent erosion in the future…