City of Alameda
While the City of Alameda leads the effort, the study supports ongoing work with the Oakland-Alameda Adaptation Committee (OAAC) Adaptation Projects, which is led by CMG Landscape Architecture in collaboration with Pathways Climate Institute.
The study focuses on Alameda’s South Shore Beach and Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary, with insights extending to Crown Memorial State Beach, Bay Farm Island, and San Leandro Bay Estuary. Because South Shore and Crown beaches are manmade features that require annual sand management, this study will reveal how sediment moves and how nature-based strategies might work along the San Leandro Bay shoreline. The team is combining existing sand management records with new data collection and modeling to understand how mudflat augmentation and eelgrass restoration could reduce sediment loss and improve sand management.
Pathways is leading the study, conducting client and stakeholder engagement, and hydrodynamic modeling. The stakeholders include the Cities of Alameda and Oakland, East Bay Regional Parks District, and the Port of Oakland. Pathways and ESA will both model typical and extreme conditions using hydrodynamic and wave models, respectively. Pathways will use the hydrodynamic model to analyze sediment transport, create a concept-level sediment budget, assess how proposed designs may change sand movement and retention, and support ESA's shoreline change assessment.