Constructing a Living Shoreline to Prevent Coastal Erosion at Udalls Cove, New York

Recipient: Save the Sound, Inc.

Grant Amount: 2,380,400

This award will create a living shoreline through oyster castle installation, native salt marsh restoration, and bioengineered stabilization techniques along 800 feet of eroding shoreline in Udalls Cove, Queens, New York. The project will protect a critical roadway and the community from further coastal erosion, and restore three acres of salt marsh and 0.14 acres of oyster reef habitat.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s website.