But experts disagree about whether restoring fresh water to the marsh will create new wetlands.

In other cases, entirely new wetlands were set aside.

Buildings were removed and environmental restoration created new wetlands for wildlife.

In almost every case, the studies said, there was no final accounting of just how much new wetlands resulted.

We're not trying to mitigate the problem by creating a new wetland, which has a high rate of failure and is very expensive.

Earthquakes can, in terms of minutes, submerge large areas of land creating new wetlands.

Work started on the new wetlands in June, 1998, and was completed by December of that year.

He said that the program called for at least 100 new wetlands in New York before it is completed.

He also said that the goal should be to prevent development of wetlands, not building new wetlands after the damage is done.

He said the loss of those lands should be offset by the acquisition of new wetlands under the settlement.