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CONSERVATION
Climate Change Is Now
Integrating sea-level rise and coastal threats into
planning for beach parks in Maui County
By David Yamashita and Jen Maydan
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The loss of shoreline
at numerous beach
parks and destruction
of the pavilion at
H.A. Baldwin Beach
Park prompted the
assessment of the vulnerability
of County of
Maui's 65 beach parks.
As part of the project,
Tetra Tech, Inc., developed
a web-based app
that acts as a planning
and educational tool.
uring the past several years, numerous beach parks in Maui
County, Hawaii - which comprises four islands, of which
three are populated - began to experience a significant loss of
shoreline and the partial destruction of an open-air pavilion.
Because these events were becoming more common, the County of Maui
Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), with the support of Director
Karla Peters, initiated a project in 2020 to assess the vulnerability of its 65
beach parks. The department retained Tetra Tech, Inc., to work with staff
to prepare the analysis and recommendations.
The project
consists
of
four
phases: (1) Identify the vulnerability
rating for each park; (2) Prepare
six general strategies; (3) Develop
an interactive web-based app;
and (4) Prepare more detailed recommendations
for parks that are
particularly vulnerable to coastal
threats in the short term.
Methodology
Under the direction of Dr. Catherine
Courtney, coastal scientist at Tetra
Tech, Inc., the project started with an
analysis of five conditions to assess
the vulnerability of each beach park.
These conditions included:
* Park area - How much of the
park is exposed to sea-level rise
* Facilities - How many facilities
and structures are affected by
sea-level rise
* Access - How access to a park is
affected by sea-level rise
* Timing - Approximately when a
park will be affected by sea-level
rise
* Beach migration - How much
sand is available on land to support
dune and beach migration
These factors were used to determine
each park's adaptation potential
- low, medium or high. Each
park also was assigned one of six
general adaptation strategies, based
on adaptation
potential,
which
ranged from monitoring conditions
to retreat/acquire land and relocate
structures. Another strategy is
to assess the viability of a park if
access is uncertain.
The App
As part of the project, Tetra Tech,
Inc., developed an interactive webbased
app. It allows users to create
and view maps of any county beach
park, along with 17 data layers that
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