Shoreline Restoration
Living shorelines and hybrid stabilization that stop erosion with breakwaters, sills, sand fill, and planted tidal marsh instead of hardened bank.
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Experts in Coastal and Ecological Engineering
We design resilient shorelines, wetlands, streams, and stormwater systems that protect communities, restore habitat, and improve the natural world we live in.
Experts in coastal and ecological engineering, helping communities restore shorelines, wetlands, streams, and stormwater systems through practical, resilient, and environmentally responsible design.
Services - Practical restoration design grounded in engineering and ecology.
We support coastal, shoreline, wetland, stream, and stormwater projects from early planning through permitting, design, and construction.
Featured project types - Restoration and resiliency at work.
A look at the kinds of projects we deliver, from nature-based shoreline stabilization to wetland creation and stream restoration.
Where we work - Rooted in the Chesapeake Bay, working nationwide.
Our practice took root in the Chesapeake Bay and Delmarva. Today we work in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, and wherever else a project needs us.
- Chesapeake Bay & Delmarva. Living shorelines, marsh restoration, stream restoration, and stormwater retrofits across Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- Pennsylvania & New York. Stream restoration, floodplain reconnection, and coastal resiliency design across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
- The rest of the country. Shoreline, stream, and stormwater projects in any other state with water moving through it.
Waves, sediment, and marsh grass follow the same physics on any coast as they do in Annapolis, so there is nowhere we can’t work.
Why Sustainable Science - Engineering, ecology, and constructability working together.
Our work combines practical engineering, ecological restoration, regulatory experience, and construction-phase insight to help clients implement resilient, environmentally responsible projects.
- Technically grounded. Designs informed by coastal engineering, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecological function, not template solutions.
- Regulatory experience. Working knowledge of Maryland Department of the Environment, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and local agency review processes.
- Concept to construction. We carry projects from early planning through permitting, design, and construction-phase support.
- Nature-based first. Living shorelines, wetland creation, and habitat-focused design inform our approach to stabilization and resiliency.
- Communities and stewards. Trusted by communities, nonprofits, municipalities, private landowners, and environmental organizations.
- Practical & buildable. Designs that balance ecological goals, regulatory requirements, constructability, and long-term maintenance.
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Shoreline restoration, wetland and stream restoration, stormwater retrofits, coastal resiliency, permitting, or construction-phase support. We'd like to hear about it.
Where we work
- Chesapeake Bay & Delmarva
Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, where the practice took root. - Mid-Atlantic & Northeast
Pennsylvania and New York streams, floodplains, and coasts. - Everywhere else
A distributed team that travels to the site, wherever it is.