The ARRA-funded project activities include ongoing road construction and drainage improvement in the western portion of the bay that will decrease land-based pollution being washed into the bay during storm events.
The project also includes multi-year, re-vegetation efforts that aim to replant barren savannah uplands with native trees and shrubs. In association with these activities, ecological and water quality monitoring are being conducted by the Pacific Marine Resources Institute, a Saipan-based non-governmental organization conducting coral reef conservation research across the Pacific, in collaboration with CNMI’s marine monitoring program comprised of member from the Division of Environmental Quality and Coastal Resources Management.
