With record damage to P.E.I.’s coastline in the wake of post-tropical storm Fiona, the provincial government and researchers are looking at new ways of protecting the Island shoreline.
One project is showing promise: offshore reefs, installed first at the Souris causeway and in 2022, at the West Point lighthouse.
They are part of a monitoring project by UPEI’s school of climate change and adaptation that is tracking erosion at eight key infrastructure sites across Prince Edward Island.
A drone flies over each site twice a year, to record any changes to the shoreline, and in some cases, how armouring and other shoreline protection measures are holding up from year to year.
