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After completing numerous smaller stormwater best management practices together, we have identified this site as the community’s highest priority for coastal resiliency due to ongoing threats to infrastructure from increasing storm surges. This location has significant need due to the damaging high tides that periodically wash into and over the bulkhead and the riprap that lines the only access road leading onto the sand spit and community marina. With a lack of natural buffers against flooding and climate change, this area is increasingly vulnerable and the areas behind the riprap are frequently washed out. The peninsula will continually erode without intervention, which will require more costly and hardened infrastructure and impervious surfaces to repair and maintain the community’s recreational access to the area. Coupled with the opportunity to restore habitat to over 650 linear feet of shoreline, Arundel Rivers is excited to break ground on our largest project to date within the Hillsmere community.