Living Shoreline Design Guidance
The Shoreline Studies Program created a course for contractors and managers that summarized our research on the performance sills around Chesapeake Bay, showed existing sites, and provided the opportunity to work through site-specific design issues.
This information is for guidance only, and should not replace professional judgments made at specific sites by qualified individuals.
Living Shoreline Design Guidelines/Manual - September 2021
Site Evaluation Tool Links:
2021 Living Shoreline Training Course
Site Assessment Worksheet (Fillable PDF)
Site Assessment Tools Training Presentation: Description, location and use of tools to do a site evaluation
Site Assessment Google Earth Tools
INFORMATION DOCUMENT
VIDEOS
Living Shorelines Design Training (March 31, 2021) - Recording of the Living Shoreline Design class.
Planning and Methods for Shoreline Management in Chesapeake Bay – Introduces shoreline management in Chesapeake Bay and discusses the process used to develop site specific management. Presented to the Virginia Association of Surveyors, February 2021 (50:20)
Shoreline Management and Living Shoreline Resiliency- Discusses the latest research on performance of sills and breakwaters and how to make the system resilient. Presented at a VIMS CCRM online workshop, August 2020(28:06)
Concept to Construction – Poor sound recording quality, presented at the 2017 Living Shoreline Design Workshop, 2017 (26:51)
PRESENTATIONS
General Site Evaluations & Design Guidelines for Non-Structural Practices: Additional site evaluation parameter considerations and non-structural living shoreline options.
Design Elements of Marsh Sills: Presentation at the 2021 Living Shoreline Design Workshop
What is Success? Presentation at the 2021 Living Shoreline Design Workshop
Living Shoreline Design Exercise: Site evaluation information for Robin Grove Park in Colonial Beach and suggested design.
ONLINE VIEWERS
Shoreline Change Map Viewer - Map showing the 1937/38, 2009, and 2017 digitized shorelines and calculated rates of change for Virginia's Bay shorelines.
Coastal Gems – Public Lands database
Adapt Virginia Website - Shoreline Recommendations and Resiliency information
2017 Living Shoreline Training Course
- Part 1 Living Shoreline Trends & Current Scientific Understanding
- Part 2 General Site Evaluations & Design Guidelines for Non-Structural Practices
- Part 3
- Design Guidelines for Marsh Sills & Offshore Breakwaters - Part A
- Design Guidelines for Marsh Sills & Offshore Breakwaters - Part B
- Part 4 Marsh Sill Design Case Studies
- Part 5 Group Design Exercise
- Training Course Video - 24 August 2017 at VIMS (You will be prompted to download Adobe Connect for viewing of this video)