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Stabilize Kingsley Plantation Seawall
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve » Stabilize Kingsley Plantation Seawall
The NPS is proposing to repair the existing damage to the shoreline and seawall at Kingsley Plantation to provide future storm resiliency by extending the seawall to the extent of the cultural landscape. TIMU protects the natural ecology of over 46,000 acres of lands and waters and over 6,000 years of human history along the St. Johns and Nassau rivers in northeast Florida. In September 2022, Hurricane Ian, a Category 3 storm, made landfall at Kingsley Plantation damaging the existing shoreline and seawall. Due to this damage, the park is now unable to successfully protect the natural ecology of land and water and the 6,000 years of human history on site. In addition to the adverse impact to the cultural landscape, the failure of the existing seawall could result in the permanent loss of buried artifacts and negatively impact nearshore habitat and tidal water.