Engineering With Nature

Built Projects

Examples of nature-based solution already built (see Bright Spots in RDE)

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The Section 1122 Strategic Shallow Water Placement Pilot Project pilots a novel approach to beneficially reusing dredged material for mudflat and salt-marsh resilience to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay. Strat...
The Corps has been attempting to manage flood risk on the Upper Guadalupe River in San Jose, California since the 1980s. San Jose is the 10th largest city in the country and is quickly growing as it is a hub of s...
The Dry Creek (Warm Springs Dam) Restoration Project is located downstream of the USACE-managed Warm Springs Dam and near the City of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, CA. The project will restore approximately 47 acres of...
The San Francisco District’s Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project (Pajaro) will utilize nature-based engineering solutions to provide critical flood risk reduction for the City of Watsonville, the Town of Pajaro...
Not long after Hurricane Michael wreaked havoc across Northwest Florida in October 2018, devastating much of Tyndall Air Force Base along the way, military and engineering officials began looking at ways to make the r...
Figure 1. Photo of Mordecai Island in 2019. Background Mordecai is an undeveloped back barrier island that runs parallel to the Barnegat Bay shoreline of Beach Haven, New Jersey (Figure 1). In addition to provid...
During the 1990s, placement of shoal material dredged from Horseshoe Bend of the lower Atchafalaya River occurred at wetland development sites located along the river’s banklines adjacent to the channel. Capacit...
Peanut Island, located in the Lake Worth Lagoon (LWL) within Palm Beach County, Florida, was originally created in 1918 using the material excavated when the Lake Worth Inlet was created (Figure 1). First called Inlet...
Coastal islands and marshes of the Chesapeake Bay are disappearing along with the critical ecosystem services and shoreline protection benefits they provide. At Swan Island, Maryland, a 25 acre island within the Marti...
Dating to the late 1860’s, Baptiste Collette Bayou was a small canal that extended between the Mississippi River and the historic Breton Island Sound. In a series of storm-related events and USACE dredging authorizati...
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