Projects - Restoration and resiliency in practice

Our work spans living shorelines, wetland restoration, stream restoration, stormwater retrofits, and coastal resiliency projects in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, and other states nationwide.

Shoreline RestorationEdgewater, MD

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Living Shoreline

Cheston Point, where the Rhode and West Rivers meet at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, was eroding under a long fetch and heavy boat wakes. Sustainable Science resurveyed the site, updated the phased living shoreline design, secured the federal and state authorizations, administered construction of five nearshore stone breakwaters and the Phase 1B structures, and is monitoring the new tidal marsh for five years.

Services provided

Shoreline design
Permitting
Construction administration
Topographic/bathymetric survey
Post-construction monitoring
Wave/erosion analysis

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Treatment WetlandDenton, Maryland

Agricultural Treatment Wetland

An engineered treatment wetland that treats runoff from a 95-acre agricultural drainage area, resolves a persistent upstream flooding problem, and reuses excavated material to return low areas of the field to production.

Services provided

Stormwater retrofit design
Treatment wetland design
Hydrologic and hydraulic analysis
Grading and earthwork
Permitting support
Construction support

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Shoreline RestorationAnnapolis, MD

NSA Annapolis Shoreline

Four reaches of steep, forested shoreline along Carr Creek at Naval Support Activity Annapolis were eroding into the creek. Sustainable Science surveyed the site, designed a low-profile hardwood log sill living shoreline with sand fill and marsh plantings, led the erosion and sediment control permitting, and saw the project through construction to the as-built survey.

Services provided

Living shoreline design
Topographic/bathymetric survey
E&S permitting (MDE lead)
Construction plans and details
Construction stakeout/support
As-built survey

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Beneficial Use of Dredged MaterialDeal Island, Maryland

Deal Island BUDM Thin Layering

Maintenance dredging of the Lower Wicomico River became the material that rebuilt 72.5 acres of sinking salt marsh at Deal Island Wildlife Management Area. Sustainable Science set the target elevation from a year of tide and vegetation data, designed the containment details, and served as independent environmental monitor through placement, planting, and settlement monitoring.

Services provided

Construction monitoring
Thin layer design
Containment design
Regulatory compliance
Settlement monitoring
Tidal monitoring

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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.

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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.