When the City of Norfolk, was awarded a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Competitive Grant, they turned to BC to assess suitable sites and to design, permit, and construct six living shoreline projects. These projects enhance coastal adaptive capacity to mitigate sea level rise impacts by restoring 11,500 linear feet of shoreline, including the creation of 3.34 acres of wetland marsh and 1.44 acres of oyster reefs. BC designed suitable, cost-effective sills to establish natural shorelines that protect and buffer the created wetland wetland areas and shoreline banks from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise. Where applicable, oyster reefs were integrated into the sill design to provide better long-term structural stability of the sill, improved water quality, and improved habitat along the eroded shorelines.