Cox, J. and Pullen, T.A. (2024) Breakwater overtopping and transmission characteristics associated with living shoreline functional atributes. In: ICCE 2024 (38th International Conference on Coastal Engineering), 8-14 September 2024, Rome, Italy.
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The twenty-first century has heralded a new direction and vision for the coastal engineering community. The goal is no longer to simply design solutions to resist the ravages of natural forces through brute force installation of hardened surfaces, but to instead work with nature and leverage natural processes to evolve solutions that are as effective in performing the primary role of defending the coast. Such an approach can bring added value to the solution by intrinsically integrating habitat and natural forms into the design. At Illinois Beach State Park, some 20 miles north of Chicago Illinois, USA, the last vestiges of the natural Lake Michigan shoreline has been rapidly eroding away. In some areas, the losses reached tens of meters in annual retreat, permanently removing critical and unique habitat from the local ecosystem. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources sought to find a way to mitigate the losses in as natural and least intrusive means possible. In the ideal solution, the mitigation would be unseen by park visitors. Such a solution would incorporate designs assembling submerged reefs and the limited use of major offshore structures. The latter would be ideally configured as islands and disguised as geologic formations and embody significant habitat character.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Coasts > Coastal structures Maritime > General |
| Divisions: | Coastal Maritime |
| Depositing User: | Helen Stevenson |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2025 15:08 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2025 15:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hrwallingford.com/id/eprint/1668 |
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