Brushlands

474 acres (15 % of property)

229 acres (48 %)

245 acres (52 %)

These pink and green areas show where the most aggressive regrowth has occured on the site since it was abandoned by the US Navy in the 1960's. All of these pink areas are important because they all surround the areas EDC has proposed to be open space. Instead of converting these pink areas to commercial development and decreasing the amount of existing open space, EDC could include these areas in their open space plan. This would be a great benefit to the quality of their open space plan and to the resources they are trying to protect.

The only pink area that is not adjacent to a proposed area of open space is in the western part of the site where it overlies a tributary to the Hunt River, a Sole Source Aquifer that drains out into Greenwich Bay just north of the property. Since this brushland is in the aquifer's groundwater recharge area, it could be a good buffer for filtering the property's industrial runoff that would be entering the sole source aquifer.