1. Jeff DeQuattro Mobile, Alabama Coastal Projects Manager
The Nature Conservancy
Photo by Beth Young

2. Alabama Living Shoreline Projects Completed
Mobile, Alabama
Helen-Wood Park – 300 meters
The Swift Tract – 1,715 meters
Coffee Island – 1500 meters
Here is a map showing the location of the two stretches of shoreline.
Here’s Mobile Bay and then Downtown Mobile.
And here is Coffee Island and the Alabama Port.
Bon Secour Bay – ~250 meters
Alabama Port – 750 meters

3. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Project in Mobile, AL
$2.9 Million to create 1.5 miles of oyster reef breakwaters
Create healthy oyster reefs to act as living shoreline breakwaters
Enhance critical habitat fish and invertebrates
Protect shorelines
Create jobs
Heavy pre-and-post restoration scientific monitoring.
Demonstrate alternative to bulkheads
Socio-Economic Survey
Demonstrate how larger-scale oyster restoration improves environmental/economic resiliency.
Here is a list of the goals of the project, and as you can see, in addition to creating or maintaining 35 – 40 jobs, the goals of the project are many.

4. Bagged Oyster Shell Full time crew of 12 to 20 people
~150,000 bags of oyster shell

5. Reef Balls
Full time crew of about 6 people
3,168 Mini-Bay Reef Balls

6. ReefBLK Full time crew of about 8 to 10 people 492 ReefBLK units
Photos by Beth Young and JoeBay Aerials

7. Socio-Economics of the ARRA Project in Alabama
Number of Positions at Height of the Project = 84 positions
Average Positions for almost 3 years (33 months) = 31.5 positions

8. ARRA efforts leading to larger scale restoration
Identified areas to restore
by consulting with…
Natural Resource Managers
Scientists
Commercial Fishers
Charter Fishers
Recreational Fishers
Community Leaders
Underserved Communities
Best Available Data

9. Socio-Economics of Restoration – Job Training
Photos by Andrew Kornylak

10. Socio-Economics of Restoration – Volunteerism

11. Socio-Economics of Restoration – Volunteerism

12. Thank You!
Photo by Jeff DeQuattro