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[10] The Port of Baltimore ■ ISSUE 2 / 2024
Community Corner
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MPA Mitigation Funding
Supports 3 Environmental Projects
Maryland Port Administration (MPA) mitigation funds for impacts to the Chesapeake Bay critical area stemming from an important dike-raising project at the Masonville Dredged Material Containment Facility (DMCF) will benefit three environmental projects conducted by Chesapeake Bay Trust (CBT) nonprofit grantees, two of which are MPA partners at Masonville Cove.
A $125,000 grant to Baltimore Green Space will increase public engage- ment and restore Springfield Woods, a 2.5-acre forest in North Central Baltimore with native plants and invasive species removal.
The National Aquarium will use approximately $123,000 in grant funding to plant nearly 34,000 native plants to populate Harbor Wetland, an 8,000-square-foot floating wetland habitat in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Additionally, over 1,900 students will engage in educational programming at the wetland restoration site over the two-year grant period.
Complementing additional matching funds, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Prince
of Peace will use $66,000 in MPA-supported funds and another $48,000 from CBT to reduce runoff from a very large, steeply sloped surfaced area and install environmentally friendly resources such as cisterns, rain gardens, pollinator gardens, trees and bioswales. 
Impacts in the 100 ft. buffer
and 1,000 ft. boundary around the critical area need to be coordinated through the Critical Area Commission and could require mitigation. The Masonville DMCF +30 dike-raising project is an example of a project requiring mitigation.
PHOTO FROM THE GREEN BOOK FOR THE BUFFER