Nearly a Decade Post-Sandy, Dirtworks Restores and Reinforces a New York Wildlife Refuge
In 2018, Dirtworks alongside Rippled Waters Engineering and Great Ecology began the marsh restoration project at Jamaica Bay in the Gateway National Recreation Area
Six years after Hurricane Sandy devastated New York in 2012, Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, in collaboration with Rippled Waters Engineering and Great Ecology environmental consultants, began a marsh restoration at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Part of the Gateway National Recreation Area located on the southwestern tip of Long Island in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, the Refuge includes a 45-acre freshwater wetland called West Pond that nourishes Atlantic migratory birds, among other animals. The design team set out to reconstruct a 2,400-foot shoreline and restore 14 acres of tidal wetlands, while creating nine new ones. Completed in the fall of 2021, the West Pond: Living Shoreline project (winner of two American Society of Landscape Architects awards in 2022) offers various solutions for protecting and maintaining wildlife habitats amid increasingly intense global storms.
West Pond’s reconstructed shoreline and plan feature new plantings, repurposed sediment, and breakwater structures, to prevent erosion in new and restored habitats. Photo courtesy Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, click to enlarge.
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