1. Gene Eidson, Ph.D. Director, Restoration Ecology Focus Area
Professor, Biological Sciences
President, Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy

2. Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
Linking natural resource conservation,
restoration, and sustainable management
to economic vitality

3. Applied Ecology Solving Social Issues For Sustainable Resources
Constructed Wetlands
Wetlands Ecology
Applied Ecology Solving Social Issues For Sustainable Resources
Restoration of Mines
River Ecology
Urban Ecology
Stream Ecology

4. Savannah River
Phinizy Swamp
South Carolina
Georgia
Merry Brick Ponds
Hammond’s Ferry

7. Hammond’s Ferry

8. Hammond’s Ferry issues related to restoration:
Historically part of the upper coastal floodplain
200 + acres drained for farming/pasture
Old gravel & clay pits, highly eutrophic legacy issue
Manufacturing past, furniture finishing and pottery
Buried brick pockets

9. Hammonds Ferry Key concerns: stormwater eutrophication habitat loss
Clay Pit Ponds
Ecological Restoration Plan
Preliminary Restoration Plan
Key concerns:
stormwater
eutrophication
habitat loss

10. Stormwater

11. Eutrophication
Habitat Loss

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15. Hammond’s Ferry Pit Lakes Ecological Restoration Design
Stormwater Conveyance Hydraulic Connection January 18, 2006

16. Stormwater from proposed landbridge
Existing stormwater
from bridge
Waterfall with
plunge pool
Stormwater from proposed landbridge
Use existing contours of wetland to diminish velocity of stormwater.
Stormwater from
Municipal complex
Greenway extension boardwalk with bridge over waterfall
Perched wetland
High water overflow to pond
Vegetated buffer
Proposed Landbridge
Existing
Pond
Wetland effluent weir boxes
Wetland influent weir boxes
Open water
Treatment wetland

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24. William Bartram Rain Garden
Garden Club of America
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Lowes

25. Hopelands Gardens Stormwater System - City of Aiken, SC

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