{"id":23600,"date":"2018-08-22T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=23600"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:26:28","slug":"six-coastal-resiliency-projects-approved-by-board-of-public-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/08\/22\/six-coastal-resiliency-projects-approved-by-board-of-public-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Coastal Resiliency Projects Approved by Board of Public Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>$380,000 to Design Restoration Projects in Four Jurisdictions<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/929\/29078584007_19dd210c1c_b_d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of coastal resiliency project by Carlos Bautista of Underwood &amp; Associates\" width=\"350\" height=\"286\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Carlos Bautista, Underwood &amp; Associates<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Board of Public Works today approved funding for six <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Resiliency Grant Program<\/a>\u00a0projects, selected through a competitive solicitation, to help Maryland\u2019s communities enhance their resiliency to the effects of climate change, erosion, flooding and extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>In year two of the program, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0will help design six shoreline restoration, stormwater and wetland enhancement projects in four jurisdictions across the state to demonstrate the protective benefits of nature-based solutions. These approved projects will complement\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/03\/28\/coastal-resiliency-program-expands-to-anne-arundel-county\/\">six resiliency projects already underway.<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis first-of-its-kind program will utilize natural and nature-based designs to help our local partners become better prepared and more resilient to climate- and weather-related challenges, risks and threats like erosion, flooding and sea level rise,\u201d Maryland Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton said. &#8220;Working with community associations, church congregations, nonprofits and others, we seek to improve water quality, protect infrastructure while replacing hardened shorelines with dynamic living shorelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following awards have been approved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anne Arundel County, West River Methodist Center \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay will address erosion, sea level rise and stormwater pollution through a 760-linear foot living shoreline and regenerative stormwater conveyance system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anne Arundel County, Community of Deale Beach \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Deale Beach Citizens Association will design a 175-linear foot living shoreline that replaces an existing hardened shoreline, addresses storm impacts and wave energy, and kick starts community-wide resiliency efforts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>City of Annapolis, St. Mary\u2019s Church \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church will design a 650-linear foot living shoreline along Spa Creek that replaces an existing bulkhead and works in tandem with on-site stormwater practices to address water quality and quantity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Town of Oxford \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Town of Oxford will work with the National Wildlife Federation to design &#8220;green&#8221; infrastructure practices that address coastal storm impacts, tidal flooding, and stormwater runoff on private and public properties.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worcester County \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Worcester County Commissioners will address recurrent flooding and sea level rise along Selsey Road and the Cape Isle of Wight community through a natural shoreline stabilization and marsh restoration project to be built with local dredge material.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worcester County, Tizzard Island \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Maryland Coastal Bays Program will address erosion and sea level rise through a comprehensive island resiliency plan and design that builds coastal resiliency and wildlife habitat on an island environment in Chincoteague Bay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These design projects are part of a larger Resiliency through Restoration Initiative, which also supports <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/coastalatlas\/Pages\/CoastalResiliencyAssessment.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restoration targeting<\/a>, climate-resilient designs, monitoring, adaptive management, community outreach and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$380,000 to Design Restoration Projects in Four Jurisdictions The Board of Public Works today approved funding for six Coastal Resiliency Grant Program\u00a0projects, selected through a competitive solicitation, to help Maryland\u2019s communities enhance their resiliency to the effects of climate change, erosion, flooding and extreme weather. In year two of the program, the\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/08\/22\/six-coastal-resiliency-projects-approved-by-board-of-public-works\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[3388,3260,2971,2955,4514,4307,3722,3124,4512,3195,3318,3256,3724,3574,2910],"class_list":["post-23600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-alliance-for-the-chesapeake-bay","tag-annapolis","tag-anne-arundel-county","tag-board-of-public-works","tag-chincoteague-bay","tag-coastal-resilience-grant-program","tag-coastal-resiliency-grant-program","tag-coastal-resiliency-program","tag-deale-beach","tag-living-shoreline","tag-maryland-coastal-bays-program","tag-oxford","tag-resiliency-through-restoration-initiative","tag-west-river","tag-worcester-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23600"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23655,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23600\/revisions\/23655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}