A “Living Shoreline” is a green infrastructure technique that uses a suite of bank stabilization and habitat restoration methods to reinforce the shoreline, minimize coastal erosion, and maintain coastal processes while protecting, restoring, enhancing, and creating a natural habitat for fish and aquatic plants and wildlife. Living shoreline projects typically utilize a variety of structural and organic materials, such as wetland plants, submerged aquatic vegetation, oyster reefs, coir fiber logs, sand fill, and stone.
The Brittany Bay Park and Living Shoreline project is designed to increase our city’s green space and improve water quality in Biscayne Bay through the use of nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions can be defined as the sustainable management and use of nature for tackling challenges such as climate change, water and food security, biodiversity protection, human health, and disaster risk management.
The park will undergo improvements designed to revitalize the waterfront and enhance the experience of park users. The construction of a hybrid living shoreline will protect the existing mangroves and create a new coastal habitat allowing for the planting of additional mangroves.
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