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Coastal communities can face significant challenges from rising sea levels, extreme storms, and anthropogenic impacts. These impacts include dredging, boat wake, and development activities. The resulting erosion and habitat loss can not only harm the environment. Living shoreline services are designed to address these very coastal challenges. However, it also limits opportunities for economic development and recreation.
Living shorelines are a highly effective and environmentally friendly way to stabilize, enhance, and restore coastal areas while improving water quality, storm resilience, and promoting coastal wildlife, plant habitats, and biodiversity. Many clients achieve these goals by choosing living shoreline services for their waterfront properties.
WithersRavenel’s environmental professionals can provide a range of living shoreline services for our clients. We can perform site analyses and help with the necessary permitting, design, material considerations, installation management, and monitoring.
In most cases, living shorelines are less expensive to construct and maintain than bulkheads, but must be carefully designed with consideration for existing conditions, waves, and current/future land use. For all these reasons, living shoreline services continue to grow in popularity.
Let’s make your shoreline more stable and resilient with an eye toward long-term sustainability.
For information on our services, contact WithersRavenel Director of Coastal Resources Brian Rubino, PG, at 252-491-8147 or brubino@withersravenel.com.
