Nature-Based Shore Projects

Oral

1100 - Wave Attenuation And Sediment Transport Monitoring Of Living Shorelines In The Delaware Bay, U.S.

Presenting Author(s)

• KW

  Katlin Walling, MEng, EIT

  Coastal Engineering
  Mott Macdonald

Additional Author #1(s)

• DG

  Douglas Gaffney, PE, DCE

  Northeast Coastal Practice Leader
  Mott MacDonald

Additional Author #2(s)

• MK

  Moses Katkowski

  The Nature Conservancy

Living shorelines are becoming a popular approach to shoreline stabilization for low-energy coastlines. The general benefits afforded by living shorelines, such as erosion reduction, habitat enhancement, and increased resiliency, are commonly known; however, project-specific technical data, such as the percent of wave energy attenuation provided by a living shoreline, is sparse. Moreover, monitoring equipment and analysis techniques required to capture the fine-detailed technical data can be cost and/or labor intensive. This study tests a practical, low-cost method of monitoring and quantifying the wave energy attenuation performance of a living shoreline project located on the Delaware Bay.