…high-energy wave environment, they could help broaden the use of living shoreline projects as erosion-control methods. In the past several years, living shorelines have been gaining national attention. Just this year, the Army Corps of Engineers authorized its first nationwide permit for living shorelines. The new permit is designed to…
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Federation celebrates coastal stewards with Pelican Awards
…health and good for commerce.” Carteret Community College for outstanding leadership supporting living shorelines. Carteret Community College received a Pelican Award for outstanding leadership supporting living shorelines. Photo: North Carolina Coastal Federation Hurricane Florence in September 2018 significantly eroded the college’s shoreline, compromising an existing bulkhead and walkway on campus….
Marsh Planting Stabilizes Island
…island’s first line of dense against erosion. The combination of reefs and plants makes a living shoreline, a natural approach that controls erosion, creates habitat for marine animals and improves water quality by filtering particles and sediment. This living shoreline project on Carrot Island is somewhat experimental. The research reserve…
9 NC Resiliency Projects Receive Millions
…Estuarine Habitats with Living Shorelines. Matching funds are $2,894,489 for a total of $5,613,838. The project is to install three large living shorelines that will protect community infrastructure as well as restore and protect vital salt marsh and oyster habitat in Bogue Sound and the White Oak River, totaling 3,518…
STEM Project Helps Kids Understand Storm
…Beaufort Elementary Unit “plant” marsh grass during a living shoreline activity with Duke University Marine Lab students. Photo: Jennifer Allen “Taylor and I have another kind of shoreline that we really like, called a living shoreline, which you guys are going to get to help us build,” said Weaver, adding…
Topsail Beach Takes on Stormwater, Erosion
…projects, he said, but not quite as exciting as rolling out what will be the town’s first living shorelines. “We think it’s a great chance for this to be almost a springboard,” for more living shoreline projects, Rose said. The town has contracted with the North Carolina Coastal Federation to…
Pelican Award: Trinity Center and Sound to Sea
Sanders Point is a place of worship for Trinity Center and the marsh behind it, a classroom for its environmental education program. Trinity Center and its Sound to Sea educators won a Pelican Award for their leadership in planting a living shoreline to save Sanders Point from further erosion. Photo:…
Catching Waves to Save Historic Shoreline
…Boyd, with environmental engineering firm SEPI Engineering and Construction. It took SEPI more than a year to obtain the state Coastal Area Management Act, or CAMA, major permit for the project, which combines the protection of reefmakers with the construction of a living shoreline. Living shorelines use plantings and constructed…
Wanchese Shoreline Sills Nearly Complete
…As part of the federation’s effort to promote living shorelines as effective, environmentally-friendly solutions to reduce soundside erosion and provide coastal habitat, the 500-foot living shoreline sills in Wanchese Industrial Park will serve several purposes, including combating erosion, improving water quality and providing an outdoor living laboratory for visitors, according…
Sugarloaf Island hybrid restoration project sees progress
…this project include reducing wave energy with an offshore living breakwater, planting seagrass behind the living breakwater, and planting a living shoreline on Sugarloaf Island,” officials said. “The living break water will not impede normal vessel traffic because it will be installed in areas too shallow for vessels to navigate…
State Permitting for Marsh Sills Simplified
…shoreline erosion control structures like bulkheads and riprap, or stone revetments. Marsh sills are a type of living shoreline that are made of wood or rock designed to protect existing or newly planted wetland vegetation by dissipating wave energy and reducing shore erosion. The general regional permit does not allow…
College Shoreline Restoration Work Begins
…on the west end of the shoreline.” The project includes restoration of 1,400 linear feet of the campus’ shoreline that was damaged by Hurricane Florence in September 2018. That is half the length of the college’s total shoreline. Along with that work, one pier and two observation decks will be…