Jamaica Bay is one of the nation’s most urbanized estuaries, with low coastal elevation zone and a high, vulnerable population density. It is largely part of the National Park and serves as critical wildlife habitat & grounds for hundreds of species. Its formerly shallow marine bathymetry has been drastically altered
by deep dredging and the ongoing effects of nitrification from waste water treatment plants. This has threatened its value as precious intertidal marine habitat.
More than any other zone, the Bay signifies how we can shift our approach to resiliency, and offers a site with rich potential to test a range of different strategies depicted here both onshore and within the bay’s disappearing marshes and shoals.