Harbor Dredging & Saltmarsh Displacement
Confined disposal of dredged material from the Charleston Harbor and surrounding waterways has displaced over 3,000 acres of tidal saltmarsh. Charleston is one of many ports with this displacement problem. Yet restoring these areas with marsh plants using the traditional greenhouse-to-transplant approach has proved too costly and cumbersome for the razor thin margins of the dredging industry. To combat these costs and bring back the marshes to their former glory, Heron Farms has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of delivering a seed payload at a fraction of the cost.
