Watch This Inspiring Video of Our Project in Boston with the Charles River Conservancy
February 9, 2021
We are delighted to share this inspiring video made by the Charles River Conservancy about our recent collaborative project in Boston. The seven hundred-square-foot Floating Ecosystem, also known as a Floating Wetland, was installed in June 2020. The video shows the assembly, planting, and installation. This Floating Ecosystem was designed to allow the bow to be lifted up for ease of towing into position.
One of the goals of this project is to help the local community better understand the ecology of the river and to find ways they can help make it a healthy and vibrant ecosystem. This is a wonderful example of the Living Water Cities vision in action.
Students collect water samples for analysis from beneath the Floating Ecosystem
19 species of native aquatic plants help increase biodiversity
1. Sweet Flag (Acorus americanus)
2. Lurid Sedge (Carex lurida)
3. Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta)
4. Canada Rush (Juncus canadensis)
5. Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)
6. Hard-stem Bulrush (Schoenoplectus acutus)
7. Soft-stem Bulrush (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani)
8. Seaside Goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens)
9. Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
10. Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
11. Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
12. Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor)
13. Arrow Arum (Peltandra virginica)
14. Spotted Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
15. Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
16. Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens)
17. Common Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
18. Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
19. Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris)
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