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Presentation Abstract
A shoreline restoration project will be completed at Lowman Park by January 2021. The Park is located on the Puget Sound in an urban context in the Morgan Junction neighborhood in West Seattle and just to the north of Lincoln Park. The approximately 1.5-acre Park is bordered to the north and south by private residential properties and to the east by Beach Drive. Subsurface infrastructure related to sewer and public storm drains is located at the Park as well. The shoreline restoration project will enhance the Park and the shoreline in a naturally sustainable way that meets multiple objectives: Improve access to the Park, substantially improve the ecological process, increase nearshore habitat and allow more adaptive capacity in the face of rising sea levels. The project comprises restoring the back of the beach at the site with native materials, grading, and planting, removing the existing 140-foot of seawall, daylight of the Pelly Creek, improving access to the site, and construction of a seawall to protect the private property to the north. The project design was developed by applying coastal geomorphology and investigated with process-based morpho-dynamic models and applied geomorphology using reference sites and regional guidance documents. The project conforms with the variation between the expected natural morphology along the shore and the constraints formed by the park facilities and neighboring structures to the north and south.
Session Title
Poster Session 1: Applied Research & Climate Change
Conference Track
SSE14: Posters
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2022 : Online)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE-posters-426
Start Date
26-4-2022 4:00 PM
End Date
26-4-2022 4:30 PM
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Type
Text
Language
English
Shoreline Restoration in an Urban Environment – Lowman Beach Park
A shoreline restoration project will be completed at Lowman Park by January 2021. The Park is located on the Puget Sound in an urban context in the Morgan Junction neighborhood in West Seattle and just to the north of Lincoln Park. The approximately 1.5-acre Park is bordered to the north and south by private residential properties and to the east by Beach Drive. Subsurface infrastructure related to sewer and public storm drains is located at the Park as well. The shoreline restoration project will enhance the Park and the shoreline in a naturally sustainable way that meets multiple objectives: Improve access to the Park, substantially improve the ecological process, increase nearshore habitat and allow more adaptive capacity in the face of rising sea levels. The project comprises restoring the back of the beach at the site with native materials, grading, and planting, removing the existing 140-foot of seawall, daylight of the Pelly Creek, improving access to the site, and construction of a seawall to protect the private property to the north. The project design was developed by applying coastal geomorphology and investigated with process-based morpho-dynamic models and applied geomorphology using reference sites and regional guidance documents. The project conforms with the variation between the expected natural morphology along the shore and the constraints formed by the park facilities and neighboring structures to the north and south.
