Boston Housing Authority
Project Title: Building Flood Resilience for Elderly Public Housing Residents at Ausonia Apartments
Grant Amount: $121,549
Description: The Boston Housing Authority will develop designs to increase flood resilience for residents at Ausonia Apartments, a public housing development in Boston’s North End neighborhood that faces coastal flood risk. Design work includes relocating first floor units and elevating mechanical equipment, designing flood barriers, and exploring back-up power solutions. The project will also conduct resident engagement and capacity-building through educational workshops and creation of a resident flood resilience task force.
Chatham
Project Title: Jackknife Beach Living Shoreline Construction
Grant Amount: $933,780
Description: The Town of Chatham will construct a pilot project to stabilize an eroding section of shoreline and restore salt marsh at the entrance to Muddy Creek along Jackknife Beach. Using a nature-based approach, this pilot project will rebuild the marsh edge to create a self-sustaining, resilient shoreline that will improve adaptation to tides, storms, and sea level rise. Guardrails and signage will guide visitors, protect restored habitat, and support continued public access.
Duxbury Beach Reservation
Project Title: Duxbury Beach Reservation South Poles Nourishment Project
Grant Amount: $1,000,000
Description: The Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc. (DBR) will complete an approximately 3,000 linear foot beach and dune nourishment project south of High Pines. This stretch of shoreline is currently only 30-35 feet wide, exceedingly low in elevation, and at risk of a breach during a severe coastal storm event. The project will help protect the mainland communities of Duxbury, Marshfield, Kingston, and Plymouth from the direct effects of waves, storm surge, and erosion.
Falmouth
Project Title: Falmouth Water Main Resilience Adaptation Designs
Grant Amount: $300,000
Description: The Town of Falmouth will prepare design plans and permit applications to adapt water mains in the Surf Drive area, including two new 12-inch-diameter water mains along Oyster Pond Road and Elm Road, as well as a 10-inch-diameter gate valve at the intersection of Mill Road and Surf Drive. These adaptations will allow residential areas along these roads to maintain adequate water pressure in the event that the existing water main must be shut off permanently due to storm damage on Surf Drive.
Hull
Project Title: Town of Hull DPW/HMLP Resilient Facility Design Development (Phase 4)
Grant Amount: $468,839
Description: The Town of Hull will continue to advance designs to combine the Department of Public Works and Municipal Light Plant facilities as a joint, resilient facility. The town will continue public outreach and consultations with agencies to advance permitting and stormwater, landscape, and site designs that support flood mitigation and ecosystem benefits.
Kingston
Project Title: Kingston Ah-de-Nah Permitting and Design
Grant Amount: $171,028
Description: The Town of Kingston will continue to advance design plans for resilience improvements of the town’s only public landing, locally called Ah-De-Nah, which provides residents and visitors with access to Kingston, Plymouth and Cape Cod Bays. The wharf, Harbormaster’s Office and parking lot at the project site provide emergency services and have a history of flooding during king tides and coastal storms. This project will develop 60% design plans and permit applications to support future final design and construction.
Revere
Project Title: Revere Residential Flood Resilience Retrofit Pilot Program
Grant Amount: $98,360
Description: The City of Revere will evaluate the feasibility of developing a Utility Elevation Assistance Program to help residents elevate critical utilities (e.g., HVAC equipment, electrical panels and boilers) currently in flood-prone basements. The project will establish recommended Design Flood Elevations, identify retrofit strategies, and assess program design approaches, including eligibility criteria, administrative structures, benefit-cost evaluations, and funding mechanisms.
Salem
Project Title: Resilient Together: Winter Island Park Coastal Bank Restoration
Grant Amount: $1,656,900
Description: The City of Salem will implement a nature-based coastal bank stabilization project along 690 linear feet of critically eroding shoreline at Winter Island Park, including sections of Waikiki Beach, Fort Pickering and the parking lot edge. The project will remove invasive vegetation and use fiber lift arrays and native vegetation to provide storm damage protection and erosion control, improve public safety and pedestrian access, restore native vegetation, and preserve archaeological and historic resources dating back 6,000 years.
Swansea
Project Title: Beneficial Reuse of Sediment for Swansea Town Beach Resilience
Grant Amount: $61,140
Description: The Town of Swansea will improve the long-term resilience of Swansea Town Beach by developing an effective approach to placing dredged material within the beach and dune system. This project will identify a more resilient approach to dune construction which will support future permitting and long-term beach management efforts.
The Nature Conservancy
Project Title: Voluntary Coastal Relocation for MA Communities
Grant Amount: $375,494
Description: The Nature Conservancy and its project partners will continue to support and strengthen regional collaboration and knowledge sharing on coastal relocation. The project will provide direct technical assistance to regional cohorts of communities and support existing research on the development of a state-wide buyout and elevation program.
University of Massachusetts - Boston
Project Title: Addressing Impacts of Climate Change on Commercial Fishing Infrastructure
Grant Amount: $91,894
Description: UMass Boston will assess the vulnerability of commercial fishing infrastructure, including docks, hoists, and boat ramps, to coastal storms and sea level rise in Plymouth, Scituate, and Provincetown. The project will develop resilience strategies, engage community members and decision-makers to elevate awareness of the potential impacts, and position the communities to secure resources that address their vulnerabilities.
Wareham
Project Title: Wareham Proposed Sewer Vulnerability Assessment
Grant Amount: $111,000
Description: The Town of Wareham will evaluate current and future coastal hazards affecting both existing and proposed sewer infrastructure in vulnerable coastal areas. Where proposed infrastructure is identified as vulnerable, up to two alternative conceptual design or siting options will be developed and compared based on flood risk reduction, erosion resilience and adaptability to sea level rise. The project will also include an analysis of replacing proposed sewer infrastructure in vulnerable areas with a nitrogen-reducing septic system program.