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Nature-Based Shore Projects
Oral
Katlin Walling, MEng, EIT
Coastal Engineering
Mott Macdonald
Douglas Gaffney, PE, DCE
Northeast Coastal Practice Leader
Mott MacDonald
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.