The Crescent Harbor Salt Marsh Restoration project, constructed during the summers of 2008-2009 using SRFB and other funding, has restored more than 200 acres of pocket estuary habitat to tidal inundation and fish access. During the initial project design, great care was taken to model post-restoration conditions. However, the dynamic nature of the natural processes interacting within the site make it difficult to account for all the ways in which conditions will evolve following exposure to tidal and wave processes.

Although, the site largely functions as intended, unforeseen erosion, caused by wave action in the interior of the salt marsh, has threatened infrastructure critical to the operation of a wastewater treatment plant located within the project site. Addressing this erosion will allow the continued function of the newly restored pocket estuary habitat while greatly reducing the risk of damage to treatment plant infrastructure from storm events. Therefore, adaptive management is proposed for two locations within the eastern portion of the restoration site.