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NCE features editor Nadine Buddoo and reporter Catherine Kennedy are Tim Barrett, who is senior environmental specialist for the Port of San Diego’s environmental conservation department and Andrew Rella, global director of engineering for eco-engineering company ECOncrete.
They explain how a blue economy model is allowing the Port of San Diego in the US to explore innovative infrastructure solutions, and discuss the challenges of existing coastal protection and impact of climate change.
As part of the port s Blue Technology Programme, it has established a Blue Economy Incubator, working with pilot projects to develop new solutions.
Ecological Cable Protection in Long Island Sound
Photo courtesy ECOncrete Marine Mattresses
December 2020 marked the deployment of fifty 150-sq. ft. nature-inclusive ECOncrete Marine Mattresses, providing large-scale armoring and protection for the Northport to Norwalk Submarine Cable, a 24 mile underwater electrical transmission cable under contract by Eversource and the Long Island Power Authority.
Photo courtesy ECOncrete Marine Mattresses
Operated by PSEG Long Island, as agent to LIPA, the cable runs along the bed of the Long Island Sound allowing electricity to be transmitted between Long Island and Connecticut. The 6,250 square feet of mattresses were developed by ECOncrete in partnership with Besser Company under the BIRD Foundation funding framework in 2016.