The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is touting the completion of a project to restore the shoreline along Indian Creek Park in Eastpoint.
The project, which was undertaken with the assistance of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper and Franklin County Schools was designed to restore Indian Creek Park as a Living Shoreline.
Living shorelines use natural shoreline features like salt marshes, seagrasses, other native plants to stabilize and rebuild the shoreline instead of using seawalls.
Before Franklin County purchased the property in 2008, the property was used as an RV park and had seawalls along the bayfront.
The Apalachicola Riverkeeper group received grants for shoreline restoration from the Seaworld and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
The group removed all of the cement barriers and, along with volunteers from The Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve and science classes from Franklin County Middle and High Schools, planted more than 7,500 salt marsh grasses and upland salt tolerant native plants and trees.
The park is open to the public.
If you have never visited it – it is at 93 North Bayshore Drive in Eastpoint right next to the Sportsman’s Lodge.
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