Coastal Services Brochure

SOLUTIONS UP FOR ANY CHALLENGE. Our team provides the following coastal services: ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY » Aquatic habitat » Flood mitigation CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT COASTAL SERVICES restoration » Floodplain studies & ENVIRONMENTAL » Asset/natural management design & INNOVATION resource vulnerability mapping assessments SITE DEVELOPMENT » Grant funding STRUCTURES » Coastal asset protection documentation & SURVEYING & engineering support TRANSPORTATION » Coastal resiliency » Living (hybrid) shorelines UTILITIES/ENERGY assessments & WATER/WASTEWATER mitigation » Sea level rise projections/modeling RKK.com » Coastal wave/surge/ erosion modeling » Shoreline stabilization design » Coastal wetlands » Stormwater » Community/ management facility stakeholder outreach/ design & retrofits communications » Waterfront structures & » Dredging design, survey revetments design & permitting

TRUSTED results “RK&K’s work has been exemplary. Creative SOLUTIONS They have handled difficult roadblocks quickly and efficiently, and we look forward to continued work with them over the next few years. ” RK&K’s Coastal Group is an assemblage of knowledgeable Sea Level Rise & Coastal Vulnerability Wavebreak Submerged Aquatic staff to provide all the resources and expertise demanded by Assessment & Implementation Plan Vegetation Monitoring challenges unique to the coastal environment. Our Coastal Group includes experts in coastal natural resources/ecology, Queen Anne’s County, MD Raleigh, NC coastal flooding, coastal mitigation, and waterfront structure/ infrastructure. Our multi-discipline group of engineers RK&K prepared a Sea Level Rise (SLR) and Coastal RK&K biologists are utilizing UAS (drone) technology and scientists are proficient in a wide variety of techniques Vulnerability Assessment/Implementation Plan through to monitor submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), or and state-of-the-art applications used to assess coastal a CoastSmart Communities Grant administered by the seagrass, and collect high resolution imagery for conditions and implement development and mitigation within MD Department of Natural Resources. Using more than development of an ortho-mosaic. The ortho-mosaic these environs. Our team consults along the East Coast for 50 GIS datasets, impacts to 35 resources were mapped. is analyzed to derive SAV bed locations to determine a variety of public and private clients. Our Coastal Group Adaption strategies to increase resiliency to SLR were SAV area and conduct a change analysis of SAV beds includes experts in traditional “gray” approaches as well as also identified. over the monitoring period. “green” approaches for sustainable/resilient solutions in the coastal environment. Main Street Drainage Improvements Intertidal Shoreline Restoration, & Hilton Beach Expansion Neshaminy State Park FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT RKK.COM. Newport News, VA Bensalem Township, PA RK&K’s Phase I design of this flood mitigation and RK&K performed an assessment and developed shoreline stabilization project maximizes access to conceptual stabilization plans, including living the water’s edge while focusing on a sustainable shoreline techniques and cost estimates for two living shoreline, providing structural components shoreline erosion areas along the Delaware River. The for shoreline stability and providing outfalls for the concepts considered visitor access and included improved stormwater system. sufficient detail to pursue funding for permitting and construction. Read Avenue Hybrid Retrofit: Stormwater Drain/Outfall, & Living Chubb Lake/Lake Bradford Shoreline Stormwater Improvements Town of Dewey Beach, DE Virginia Beach, VA RK&K implemented a living shoreline and upgraded RK&K is providing overall program development, a stormwater drain/outfall designed to eliminate analysis, and design of infrastructure improvements flooding during storms. RK&K services included a to alleviate widespread flooding due to moderate rain shoreline assessment, H&H design, conceptual and events and periods of high tides in the Chesapeake final design plans, and permit support. Bay throughout Virginia Beach’s Watershed 31.