Funds Earmarked for Wetlands Restoration
The State Coastal Conservancy on Thursday earmarked $250,000 to help restore a 100-acre wetlands area at the mouth of the Santa Ana River near Newport Beach.
The money will be used to design a restoration plan for the land and to cover related costs, said Melanie Denninger, project analyst with the conservancy, which is part of the state Resources Agency.
The land, on the river’s southern bank, has been used as an oil field by West Newport Oil Co., conservancy officials said.
Though plans for its restoration are not yet complete, officials said they hope the project will be part of a new state wetlands “conservation bank” to which private industry could make contributions to mitigate for development elsewhere.
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