First of Its Kind, Leading Sea Level Rise Planning in the Bay Area

Published on September 17, 2025

Workers protect Harbor Marsh by installing temporary fencing at the edge of the Horizontal Levee restoration

The Palo Alto Horizontal Levee Pilot Project construction is underway, a nature-based approach providing protection against sea level rise and enhancing habitat in the San Francisco Bay.

This project is the first of its kind to be built on the San Francisco Bay shoreline using effluent from the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to irrigate native plantings and informing future “living levee” designs all around the Bay Area.

A new community update shares details about the project, ways it uses nature to shape and protects the environment and more. 

Read the Update.

 

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