Greenwood Beach Restoration Project

active

The current design phase is funded by a $380,000 grant from the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority. Future phases will be led by the Town of Tiburon. Preliminary designs were funded through a partnership between the Marin Community Foundation and the California State Coastal Conservancy. Living shoreline techniques reinforce the shoreline and minimize coastal erosion, while restoring natural habitats for native plants and animals. Through strategic placement of native vegetation and natural materials such as sand, gravel, and cobble, bay beaches can protect shoreline systems and the tidal marshes behind them from further erosion. Over the years, additional fill materials including asphalt, concrete rubble, and sand were placed to combat wave erosion of the park's shoreline. However, the shoreline has continued to erode, as waves scatter fill materials away from the shoreline and onto adjacent mudflats. Given this, the Greenwood Beach Restoration project is working to develop a more sustainable, nature-based "living shoreline" approach to managing the beach shoreline. Greenwood Beach is the beach shoreline area along a public park in Tiburon. The project site was historically a larger, wider barrier beach that sheltered a non-tidal salt marsh with shallow seasonal ponds. Today, the shoreline includes: