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Paradise Creek Nature Park
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Oyster Reefs
Forty thousand seed oysters were placed on barged-in shell at the mouth of Paradise Creek. Residents of the Craddock neighborhood, including Boy Scout Troop 222, grew  oysters in floats to be added later that summer. Two oyster workshops were held to further involve the community and other members of the public. The project was funded with $75,000 from NOAA, Fish America, the Chesapeake Bay Program and other sponsors.

 
Wetlands Rain Garden Creation
The Elizabeth River Project also constructed a "rain garden" to treat creek runoff at Cradock Career and Technical Center on George Washington Highway with $25,000  from a VA Dept. of Conservation and Recreation Chesapeake Bay Watershed Grant.
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Contamination Removed
Too, in the summer of 2004 the US Navy planned to remove contamination in a wetland area offshore of a landfill at Scott's Annex. 
 
 
 

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