This project takes place on the Savannah River, in collaboration with the Savannah District of the Army Corps of Engineers. Its goal is to restore the oxbows (or large loops that the river naturally made as it meandered toward the ocean) in the Savannah River, which were straightened out for navigation purposes.
IRIS is working with the Army Corps of Engineers to help reconnect the oxbows, and to increase benefits, cut costs and use natural materials to help restore the river. They’re specifically engineering log jams, which would have occurred naturally within the river.
Point person: Dr. Brian Bledsoe