Team: Public Sediment
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek (Alameda Creek, Alameda County): Team: Public Sediment is a proposal for sediment building in Alameda.
Tidal ecosystems are protective infrastructure that cushion the urban edges of the San Francisco Bay. Yet the Bay Area’s tidal ecosystems — its marshes and mudflats — are at risk. These systems require sediment to grow vertically in response to sea level rise – without sediment, our baylands will drown.
Low sediment supply and bayland drowning represents a slow but devastating scale of loss that threatens ecosystems, recreational landscapes, and places hundreds of thousands of residents and the region’s critical drinking water, energy and transportation systems at risk. To creatively adapt to this challenge, the team focused on sediment, the building block of resilience in the Bay.