West Pond Living Shoreline
& Restoration Project–
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
• Jamaica Bay – Rockaway Parks Conservancy
• National Park Service
Design Team:
• Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC
• Great Ecology
• Rippled Waters Engineering

West Pond
Breach Area
(October 2012)

Project Site and Plan: West Pond Living Shoreline & Restoration Project

Site Photographs
Breach area, Facing West Existing outfall, Facing South

Site Photographs
Fragmented low marsh (Spartina alterniflora) west of
the breach area, Facing East
Patch of low marsh (S. alterniflora) west of the breach
area at Terrapin Point, Facing West

Site Photographs
East of the breach area, Facing South Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) nesting
west of the breach area, Facing North

Project Site

Volunteer Planting and Restoration
Partnership with Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers &
American Littoral Society
Sunset Cove Volunteer and Jamaica Bay R-Corps Restoration Project Example (left);
Coir Log Example at Bayswater Point State Park (right)

Billion Oyster Project
Partnership
Hard clam, oyster shell (1 yr UV sterilized) in coir rock bag – no aquiculture or oyster restoration to take place

Project Fast Facts
• 2400 linear feet of shoreline
• ~40,000 cubic yards of soil/sand
• Reconstruction of a historic outfall to the
north of the breach area (minimal planting
added)
• 195,000 native plants over an 8-acre site
• Low and High Marsh Plantings
• 195,043 plugs and 1,663 1 gal. plants
for a total of 196,706 plants. (volunteer
and contracted)
• Breakwater features ~4,900 bags of clean shell
• Erosion Control Measures
• 6 sets of tree veins
• (9) 20”w and (6) 12”w coir log grouping
• Estimated cost: $3.5 million
• Joint NYS DEC/USACE Permit
• Nationwide 27 Permit (USACE)
NAN-2020-01099-WRY
• NYS DEC Tidal Wetlands Permit
Application ID: 2-6308-00602/00016
• SHPO Approval
• NMFS/NOAA Consultation
• Anticipated construction start:
Winter/Spring 2021
Permit & Timeline