Living Shoreline Feasibility Model
Join us as Dr. Joshua Moody with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary discusses the use of a feasibility model to inform the design and implementation of a living shoreline. The living shoreline feasibility model (LSFM) is an integrative tool that evaluates a suite of metrics to assess considerations involved in constructing and maintaining a living shoreline at a specific location. The LSFM guides users in collecting information on the physical and ecological characteristics as well as factors related to site access and community resources, which are subsequently integrated to provide baseline data on existing conditions and inform team building, design, and installation planning. The LSFM is not a landscape scanning tool, but provides a relative evaluation of sites brought to the model. The LSFM can be used to: assist in implementation site selection from among a variety of sites, inform the various types of expertise or relationships required for successful treatment of a particular site, and/or better understand how to phase a multi-step project.
Presenter:
Dr. Joshua Moody of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary