MS city earns environ resilience award

COVINGTON, La. – Members of the Gulf of Mexico Climate and Resilience Community of Practice honored Ocean Springs, Miss., with the 2017 Spirit of Community Award for its work in the field of climate adaptation planning and environmental resilience. The award recognized the city’s creative solutions to erosion control, storm-water runoff and flood mitigation. The city also recently proposed a modified living shoreline for property owned by Jackson County; and county supervisors implemented an Inner Harbor Park project, designed to protect the area from further coastal erosion and preserving basic ecological functions of the waterways within the park. (Source: Sea Grant 05/19/17)