The West Haven Shoreline Restoration Committee is pleased to announce that four concepts have been developed for the West Haven Shoreline Resilience and Eco-Restoration Project. The public is invited to provide feedback on the different alternatives online through its website until January 14, 2023.
Since July 2022, the Shoreline Restoration Committee has been collaborating with SLR International Corporation and the West Haven community on a project to restore a 1.5-acre area of public shoreline adjacent to Old Grove Park with the goal to become a model for coastal ecosystem exploration with an educational component.
To identify opportunities and constraints associated with potential improvements, SLR International Corporation prepared four conceptual alternatives depicting nature-based coastal solutions and potential amenity space improvements. The concepts include key ideas that help to define how the space can be used and what visitors will see and learn as they are immersed in the space.
“Ongoing community involvement is a vital component of this project,” said Committee Co-leads Marilyn Wilkes, Vice President, West Haven Land Trust, and Mark Paine, Parks and Recreation Director for the City. “These four concepts were developed with the data we collected from the onsite community engagement event and online survey. Now we are asking the public to weigh in on the four designs and let us know what elements within each concept they like or dislike. The team will use that feedback to create the final plan.”
Once the data is analyzed from the four concepts online survey, SLR will prepare a final Nature-Based Coastal Resilience Plan and then create a preliminary engineering plan to 30% design. The plan will show enough detail to identify temporary and permanent impacts and to develop a preliminary engineer’s opinion of probable construction costs. It will also indicate existing structures, topography, utilities, vegetation removals, and sediment and erosion controls. The Shoreline Restoration Committee anticipate sharing that plan with the public by March 2023.
For detailed images for each concept, please visit the website.
