BayLand Consultants & Designers, Inc.

We are thrilled to announce that the Ft. Smallwood Park Shoreline Enhancement Project in Pasadena, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, received the ASBPA American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) 2024 Best Restored Shores Award. 🏆🎉🌊🌿 This project, a collaborative effort with the Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works and Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks, showcases our commitment to enhancing natural resiliency and restoration. We are proud to contribute to this significant achievement. 💪🌎 We are also excited to share that Anna Johnson, PE, CC-P will be presenting this project at the ASBPA National Coastal Conference in Galveston, Texas, this August and accepting this award on behalf of BayLand. 🎤🏆 For more details, please check out the 2024 Best Restored Shores Awards Press Release from ASBPA here, https://lnkd.in/e3dEhK_u. 📄🔗 #BestRestoredShores #ShorelineEnhancement #FtSmallwoodPark #AnneArundelCounty #CoastalRestoration #EnvironmentalProtection #NaturalResiliency #HabitatRestoration #ASBPA #BayLand

🌿 Exciting News from Holly Beach Farm! 🌿 Marsh growth at our Holly Beach Farm site has really taken off this year! 🌱 We observed loads of both Spartina patens and Spartina alterniflora during our latest site visit. Originally owned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, this 293-acre waterfront property was donated to Maryland Department of Natural Resources in March 2024. 🏞️ Funding was provided by the Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works Watershed Protection and Restoration Program for Full Delivery of Turnkey Water Quality Improvements. We are thrilled to see such positive progress in our efforts to restore and enhance the natural resilience of this beautiful site! 💧🦆 #EnvironmentalRestoration #MarshGrowth #HollyBeachFarm #Spartina #ChesapeakeBay #BayLand #AnneArundelCounty #WaterQuality #NaturalResilience

The Northeast Park Stream Restoration and Stormwater Management Retrofit project site is looking spectacular! We love seeing our projects flourish. This City of Rockville initiative enhances an unnamed tributary to Rock Creek, restores the pond’s ability to collect stormwater runoff, traps sediment, and reduces pollution to local waterways that flow into the Chesapeake Bay. #StreamRestoration #StormwaterManagement #EnvironmentalProtection #RockCreek #ChesapeakeBay #SustainableProjects #WaterQuality #HabitatRestoration

Recently BayLand staff performed closeout monitoring of our Solley Cove Park and Fort Smallwood Park Living Shorelines. We are happy to report that not only do we see thriving marsh habitat, but these sites were teeming with previously unseen wildlife and aquatic habitat. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation has populated behind the breakwaters at both sites and juvenile fish were observed enjoying the protected waters. We even spotted a horseshoe crab in the sandy embayments of the Solley Cove site!! Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks #livingshorelines #environmentalmonitoring #habitatrestoration #wildlifeconservation #aquatichabitat #submergedaquaticvegetation #coastalrestoration #horseshoecrab #baylandprojects

❤️ Mayo Beach

Over the weekend, BayLand employees Caitlin, Anna, and Megan attended the Arundel Rivers on the Half Shell event held at Camp Letts in Edgewater, Maryland. BayLand is proud to be a Blue Crab sponsor this year. Donate at arundelrivers.org to help continue the fight for clean water!! #HalfShell #Maryland #arundelrivers #bayland #water

The City of Rockville Government Environmental Management Division took residents on a tour of the city’s Northeast Park Pond and Stream Restoration project. BayLand provided design and construction mnagement services for this project which restored the pond’s ability to collect stormwater runoff, trap sediment, and help to reduce pollution to local waterways that flow to the Chesapeake Bay. https://lnkd.in/gMKuNAG4

This week Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Maryland Department of the Environment hosted a technical training session on Living Shoreline Design and Implementation. Yesterday, BayLand’s Anna Johnson presented on understanding coastal processes and the methodologies for designing living shorelines.