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Center for Coastal Resources Management

Sills & Breakwaters

Hybrid living shoreline design alternatives include structures to change physical wave conditions, to support vegetation growth and/or to create wide stable beaches.  These techniques are used where non-structural methods would not provide enough protection.  The structure size and location depends on how wide the vegetation or beach buffer needs to be.