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Council briefed on monitoring plan for Mordecai Island living‑shoreline project
Summary
Council was briefed on a proposed rubble‑mound living‑shoreline breakwater for Mordecai Island; monitoring platforms will be placed in late August or early September and federal agencies will collect data ahead of potential construction in the following 1–2 years.
A council member reported on a multi‑agency project led by the Mordecai Land Trust to build a rubble‑mound living‑shoreline breakwater on the western side of Mordecai Island. Jim Dugan, vice president of the Mordecai Land Trust, and engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its Engineer Research and Development Center are involved in monitoring and design.
The council was told monitoring platforms (five units) will be installed in late August or early September to measure waves, tides and currents; the data will inform whether construction moves forward over the next one to two years. The project is primarily federally funded with additional contributions from the land trust, and public meetings about the project have been posted on local outlets.
