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The proposed project includes 450 linear feet of stream restoration starting just west of Second Street Pike and extending west in between the two farmed areas. The project includes regrading and stabilizing the banks on both sides of the stream which will require some tree removal to achieve the proposed slopes. This will also involve removing dead and fallen trees in the restoration area, creating naturally planted pocket wetlands for groundwater recharge, providing an area for floodplain reconnection and restoring riparian buffers with the installation of a 3-tier riparian forest buffer consisting of native trees and shrubs along both sides of the stream. The stream banks are eroding causing some trees along the channel to have exposed roots in danger of falling into or across the stream. In the current conditions, there is minimal riparian buffer on the northern side of the stream. The proposed stream restoration will allow the Township to meet and slightly exceed the required sediment reduction requirement to provide water quality improvements in the tributary and the downstream watershed. The stream restoration project will provide stabilized banks, floodplain reconnection with pocket wetland areas, and riparian buffers which will result in sediment pollution reduction and improved water quality which will ultimately contribute to the overall water quality in the stream within the impaired Neshaminy Creek watershed.