He looked at the grass and he said, “Well, it ain't pollution coming from the street that's moving in there.”

We thought it might've been coming from an industrial area down there by the park. When he saw it, he asked me if I had any pictures.

And like I said, I had a picture that I took of my father sitting in the tree, and the marsh was like four or five feet high, and the stream was deep.

He looked at it, and then he looked at the marsh, and he said, “no man…”

So he took the picture and called Dr. Morris from the University of South Carolina, the foremost professor in marsh growth. And he immediately came out and started testing to see if it was contamination.

He found out that the saline was off, but it had already started mixing by that time.

And he called some more people, and they called some more people. And that's when the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources came in, Mr. Michael Rogers.

And then they got a grant and started planting.