MARSH RESOURCES MEADOWLANDS MITIGATION BANK (Meadowlands) is a 206-acre site located within the Hackensack Meadowlands District in the Borough of Carlstadt, Bergen County, New Jersey and has a "service area" of the Hackensack River Drainage Basin, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill and the New Jersey Side of the Hudson River. The site has been converted from a degraded Phragmites (common reed) choked system to a more natural inter-tidal, salt marsh-estuarine, island/channel/mud flat ecosystem vegetated with native species including Spartina. Historically, the site was a complex wetland system which supported a diverse array of freshwater and estuarine plant and animal species. Over the last 100 years intense development and mosquito ditching led to a total degradation of the site. Phragmites, an invasive reed took over the site at the expense of all other plant species. This led to an overall loss of wetland functions and values as well as eliminating the site's beneficial and desirable wildlife habitat.