Aesthetic Barrier
Trees provide a natural
barrier and new habitat for wildlife. (7021-113).
With
an increase in cleanup activities during the late 1990’s along the
southeastern border of the Fernald site, the
Fernald Citizens Advisory Board recommended that DOE install a
natural barrier to screen site operations and provide new wildlife
habitats.
In 1998,
DOE and its cleanup contractor, Fluor Fernald, installed an aesthetic
barrier along a one-acre parcel of land near Willey Road. Designed to
include a mixture of evergreens and fruit-bearing deciduous trees, the
barrier provides a natural buffer between the Fernald site and road,
and creates a new habitat for wildlife specifies. Workers planted two
alternating rows of evergreens (Eastern white pines and Norway spruce)
and a line of deciduous trees (red maple, green ash, American
crabapple). Spring flowering trees and trees with vivid yellow and red
fall foliage provide aesthetic appeal.
The
barrier is one of 15 ecological restoration projects outlined in the
Fernald Natural Resource Restoration
Plan.
It counts as one of the 904 acres DOE has dedicated for natural
resource restoration to compensate for damages to natural resources
during site operations and cleanup.
For More Information
Contact Sue Walpole, S. M. Stoller, at 513-648-4026, e-mail:
Sue.Walpole@lm.doe.gov
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