NFWF Grant Profile

Remove two dams on the Kickemuit River to provide community and ecological resiliency benefits by increasing flood storage capacity of the wetlands, reducing flooding of infrastructure, restoring a tidal estuary, enhancing habitat for estuarine and anadromous species, hydrologically re-connecting the watershed to the estuary and improving water quality. Project will restore salt and brackish marsh habitat in both the lower and upper impoundments and will create an area for salt marsh migration.