COASTAL & RIVERINE
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Coastal and riverine projects are essential to recreational activities and habitat connectivity. The high utilization of these shorelines requires resilient designs. All plausible environmental factors and scenarios must be considered, and compatibility found between human use, the natural elements and the changing climate.
AMI uses state-of-the-art software coupled with an experienced professional engineering staff to develop solutions tailored for each client's need. AMI specializes in all aspects of coastal engineering and serves the private, commercial, tribal, municipal and government sectors. From AMI's experience, coastal solutions pose unique challenges. The designs typically need to be attractive, functional, constructible, cost-effective, resilient and environmentally sustainable. The design must take into account coastal processes, including the effects of frequent severe storms, varying water levels, winds, tides, seiche, currents and climate change scenarios.
Services
Shorelines
Stabilization and rehabilitation
Trails
Bioengineering
Vegetation and plantings
Coastal Structures
Sheet pile walls
Soldier pile walls
Concrete walls
Levees
Kayak/canoe launches
Beach Engineering
Beach nourishment
Dredge material management and beneficial reuse
Permitting and Regulatory Compliance
Environmental Services
Wetland delineations
Phase I and phase II site assessments
Special species surveys
Field Services
Underwater archaeology surveys
Side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, magnetometer, sector scan surveys
Pre- and post-dredge surveys
Special inspections
Construction administration
Modeling
Hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H)
Wave and harbor tranquility
Sediment transport and shoreline morphology
Flood inundation
“AMI’s knowledge about Lake Superior’s power and dynamics have helped us create resilient shoreline and harbor infrastructure. AMI has always had our best interest throughout the projects we have worked on with them. We are very fortunate to have AMI located in our own back yard!”
— City of Duluth, Minnesota