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Sediment Tubes

Intervention Goals

  • Increase vegetation
  • Erosion prevention
  • Improve water quality
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Sediment Tubes

Encouraging natural colonization of boat-damaged seagrass beds, this technique involves filling fabric tubes with sediment, and seagrass seeds to speed up recovery, and placing them along damaged scars from anchors and propellers to ensure reconnection of the seagrass meadow.  

By returning these damaged segments to the appropriate elevation, the intervention prevents further erosion and scouring by water currents as well as protects peripheral rhizomes from excessive sunlight exposure.

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