08/04/2026
🌿On July 18, The Watershed Project and project partners gathered with North Richmond community leaders for the sixth and final Community Working Group meeting of this phase of the North Richmond Collaborative Shoreline Adaptation Project🎉The meeting created space to reflect on what participants had learned and contributed, what the project team had learned from them, and how community input shaped the project’s goals and design development. It also provided an opportunity to discuss what comes next and celebrate the community leaders who make this project possible.
The project advances 🌊nature-based solutions and a multi-benefit approach that improves sea level rise resilience while providing community amenities that enhance the shoreline. The Watershed Project has led the project’s participatory engagement work for several years, in 🤝partnership with North Richmond community leaders, West County Wastewater, Mithūn, and ESA, with funding from the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
Over the past year, participants contributed their lived experience, knowledge, ideas, concerns, and priorities, helping to inform the project’s goals and design development. 🍂Together, the group explored nature-based, multi-benefit approaches to flooding, sea-level rise, groundwater rise, contamination, 🐝habitat restoration, shoreline access, public amenities, and the proposed living levee.
This collaborative work reflects The Watershed Project’s vision of communities recognizing their connection to the 🏙️Bay Area watershed and building the relationships, shared knowledge, and collective commitment needed to care for it and strengthen resilience.🌉
We are deeply grateful to everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and vision throughout this process, and we look forward to working with them again in the future.
