Donning a tan-brimmed hat, rubber boots and a yellow and blaze orange vest, Bruce Natale waded through goldenrod and reed canary grass in the Owasco Flats Wednesday afternoon.
Narrow boards ran across parts of the wetland in the muddiest areas, and Natale, environmental engineer for Cayuga County, walked across them, sweeping off dirt and debris with his boots as he went along. The Owasco Flats Wetland Restoration and Riparian Buffers Initiative has finally received its two permits from the state Department of Environmental Conservation and its one permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to start work. The project hopes to limit the amount of sediment and nutrients running into Owasco Lake.
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