Most people think of concrete rubble as junk, something hauled to a landfill after a road gets resurfaced. Meanwhile, that same rubble became the foundation for a living reef in downtown Pensacola, Florida. According to the Florida DEP, the Northwest Florida Aquatic Preserves program worked in partnership with the city of Pensacola, Escambia County, the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA and local volunteers. That reef is still there more than two decades later and it helped restore the habitat the bay lost for generations.
The rubble grew into a reef
