When: Wednesday, September 25 @ 6 p.m.
Where: Virtual presentation – register below
Roger Leventhal is a Senior Engineer at Marin Flood Control District with expertise in flood control and researching and implementing nature-based solutions to mitigate shoreline erosion. He will talk about this approach and why some of our local shorelines are good candidates for it. Come learn about these interesting possibilities!
This program is part of our ongoing series of educational events about our precious local wetlands. Click here to view our previously recorded Wetlands Committee webinars that are posted on the Coalition’s YouTube Channel.
Roger Leventhal, P.E is a Senior Engineer with Marin County Flood Control District. He oversees technical studies for sea level rise and climate change adaptation for Marin County with an emphasis on utilizing nature-based solutions and their integration with more traditional engineering approaches. He was in private consulting specializing in wetlands and creek restoration for approximately 25 years (12 years running his own firm) prior to coming to the County. He has designed and managed several large Bay Area tidal marsh restoration projects, especially those involving the beneficial reuse of dredged sediments to create wetlands including the Novato thin-lift dredge placement projects, the Montezuma Wetlands Project, the Hamilton Restoration Project and the Bair Island Projects. As a consultant, he was lead engineering designer for the Aramburu bay beach restoration project in Marin County and is currently developing additional beach restoration projects at several locations in Southern Marin.
He has a BS in Geology (geomorphology) from UCSB and a Masters in Hydraulic Engineering from UC Berkeley. Mr. Leventhal is an appointed member (now emeritus) of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) Design Review Board since 1997 primarily to provide guidance on engineering design and construction in ecologically sensitive areas around the San Francisco Bay margin as well as the SFBRA advisory committee. He is the Northern California elected representative to the Floodplan Managers Association (FMA) as well as a member of the ASCE committee on climate change adaptation.