Coastal engineering here is shoreline, inlet, and waterfront work that has to survive waves, storm surge, and a Corps / coastal-program review. Bulkheads, revetments, living shorelines, piers, dredging, and the drainage that outfalls there.
Cypress Environment & Infrastructure designs those sections and runs the 404/10/401 file with them. Offices in Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola. Mobile, Vicksburg, and New Orleans Districts.
What we actually design
- Piers, docks, and marshwalks (including SAV-aware piling layouts)
- Living shorelines where the energy band allows it; hardened sections where it does not
- Dredge and fill that can be permitted
- Stormwater and grading that does not blow out the scarp
What failure looks like
A wall with no toe. A “living shoreline” planted in boat wake. Fill that solves your yard and creates a neighbor problem. We will say when a cute section will not last a hurricane.
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