When the City of Norfolk (Virginia) was awarded a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) – Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Competitive Grant, they turned to BC to provide assessment, design, permitting and construction services for six projects to restore 11,500 linear feet of shoreline, including the creation of 3.34 acres of wetland marsh and 1.44 acres of oyster reefs. BC designed suitable, cost-effective sills to protect the created wetland areas and shoreline banks from erosion, while taking projected sea-level rise and land subsidence estimates into consideration. Where applicable, oyster reefs were integrated into the sill design to provide better long-term structural stability of the sill, improved water quality, and improved habitat along the eroded shorelines.
