Suisun City

Nature-Based Solutions

Sustainable Solano is actively engaging community members around the types of nature-based solutions, such as marsh restoration, living levees, or peat-building wetlands, they would like to see to address flood risk. This is part of our work focused on community engagement around nature-based solutions funded through National Fish and Wildlife Foundation support through Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network and Coastal Quest.

We invite Suisun City residents to answer our survey on nature-based solutions here, and find out about upcoming events here.

This work builds upon previous community engagement Sustainable Solano led with our data partners, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Adapting to Rising Tides program, and the local government of the City of Suisun, that brought community members into conversation around flood risk and led to the creation of a Community Resilience Building Workshop Summary.

The next steps are to engage the community around tangible solutions that the city can pursue to address those increasing risks.

Learn more about nature-based solutions and adaptation strategies in this presentation by the San Francisco Estuary Institute

A Resilience Hotspot

Flood Futures walk in partnership between Sustainable Solano and Greenbelt Alliance

Suisun City is a Greenbelt Alliance Resilience Hotspot. The Bay Area Resilience Hotspots initiative is a blueprint for where to protect communities that stand to lose the most in the face of climate change in ways that co-benefit habitats, open spaces, biodiversity, recreation, and more. Learn more about Suisun City and the Bay Area Resilience Hotspots initiative at greenbelt.org/suisun-city.

Resilient Neighborhood

Suisun City was one of Sustainable Solano’s first resilient neighborhoods. Resilient neighborhoods bring together neighbors in addressing environmental and climate challenges through community-level action, including the creation of resilient landscapes within their neighborhoods.

This part of our work encompassed raising awareness and educating the public on the impacts of flooding for the residents and stakeholders of Suisun City while also building out a resilient neighborhood in a socially vulnerable community subject to flooding in downtown Suisun. We installed two flood-resilient gardens, kicked off an annual climate event, led high school internship programs, took residents on Flood Walk tours, and empowered the community to tackle flooding.

We look forward to building on this foundational work in our current work around identifying nature-based solutions the city can pursue for future flood resilience.

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