‘Living shoreline’ restoration at Blackie’s starts after Labor Day

A project drawing shows the two beaches at Blackie’s Pasture as they would be rebuilt, with the beachface and backshore beach in tan, cobble-armored salt marsh and drift sills in green and the edges where vegetation is expected to take hold. The Tiburon Town Council awarded a $468,983 construction contract Aug. 19 to rebuild about 1.4 acres of shoreline along Greenwood and Brunini beaches with sand, gravel and logs instead of seawalls and riprap, and work is set to begin Sept. 8. (via town of Tiburon)

Work to rebuild two eroding beaches at Blackie’s Pasture is set to begin the day after Labor Day, using sand, gravel and logs instead of seawalls and riprap to hold the shoreline in place.

The Tiburon Town Council voted 3-0 Aug. 19 to award the construction contract to Livermore-based Goodfellow Bros. for $468,983 and to let the town manager approve change orders of up to 15%, or $70,347, bringing the maximum to $539,330.

Goodfellow will grade back the eroding scarp, the steep face where the beach has been cut away. Crews will also remove and dispose of asphalt, install two rock sills at Brunini Beach and place a log backstop at Greenwood Beach.

“We’re installing a living shoreline, meaning that the material that’s being installed here at this beach, the wave action will pull the material out and push it back in so that it doesn’t erode any of the areas along Blackie’s Pasture,” said David Eshoo, the town Public Works Department’s engineering manager.

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