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CELEBRATING OVER 40 YEARS OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT IN RHODE ISLAND

In The Spotlight

New guide helps RI homeowners, businesses protect property from flooding and erosion

2014 Report on Designation of Rights-of-Way to Tidal Areas of the State available (PDF)

Beach SAMP Stakeholder Meeting Tuesday, January 20th

CRMC to oversee multiple RI dredging, habitat restoration projects

CRMC mourns passing of former Legal Counsel Alan J. Goldman

Click here for more information on STORMTOOLS

Events look at how sea level rise, storms, and other coastal changes are affecting communities and businesses
Free Public Lecture: "Staying Afloat" – Adapting Waterfront Business to Rising Seas and Extreme Storms

CRMC Council approves final DWW permits

Rhode Island Celebrates Community Effort to Create State Shellfish Plan November 17
– Memorandum of Agreement between the RIDEM and the CRMC
– RI Shellfish Management Plan web site

CRMC issues public notice to adopt SLAMM maps
See SLAMM maps here

CRMC seeks pre-proposals for Habitat Restoration Trust Fund projects
CRMC announces funding for habitat restoration projects

Special Ocean Frontiers II film screening informs citizens for ocean planning input - October 14, 2014

Conditional Area A and the Conimicut Triangle to reopen to shellfishing at sunrise Saturday, October 11
Shellfish closure extended in Conditional Area A and the Conimicut Triangle following sewage discharge from Narragansett Bay Commission sewer system

Developing methods for analysis and drawing conclusions from larval settlement monitoring in Narragansett Bay: Is the timing of seasonal recruitment a driver of non-native success in the intertidal fouling community? (PDF)

Overview of a Changing Climate in Rhode Island (PDF)

Rhode Island State Conservation Committee releases the 2014 update to the Rhode Island Soil Erosion And Sediment Control Handbook

Proposed Department of the Army New England General Permits for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont (PDF)
Joint CRMC/DEM public notice regarding the Army Corps of Engineers New England General Permit (PDF)

CRMC, URI to develop Beach SAMP
Shoreline Change (Beach) SAMP official kickoff 4/4/13
Beach SAMP advance press briefing 4/3/13
Official SeaGrant Shoreline Change SAMP Page

Losing Ground: Coastal Erosion in Rhode Island (PDF) – Did you know that 50 percent of Rhode Island's shoreline sediments are susceptible to erosion? Or that with the increasing rainfall that comes with climate change, Block Island's bluffs will face more rapid erosion? This presentation by Janet Freedman, coastal geologist with the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council, describes some of the erosion threats Rhode Island's coastal areas are facing, as well as efforts the state is undertaking to help municipalities and property owners address these problems.For more on climate change impacts to Rhode Island, see Climate Change and Rhode Island's Coasts (PDF).

Currently Proposed Policies/Regulations

Header photo above provided by the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program.