The resilience recommendations for Scituate Harbor focus on a incremental elevation and adaptation of the coastal perimeter of the district that integrates with an elevated Harborwalk, new coastal amenities and open space features. This approach is combined with the protection and improvement of the natural systems that provide protection to the district and adjacent shoreline at the Kent Street marshes and the banks of the Satuit Brook. The addition of green infrastructure in the district will protect and improve water quality of the harbor. All of these investments are focused on reducing the pathways of ocean water into the business district.

Specific Scituate Harbor resilience recommendations include:

• A new elevated waterfront park amenity at Cole Parkway that provides flood protection
• New seating and coastal amenities along an elevated Scituate Harborwalk from Cole Parkway to the Town Pier
• Elevation of sea walls and bulkhead edges that already exist in the district
• Floodproofing the waterside of buildings along Front Street and adding infrastructure for deployable floodgates between gaps in buildings
• Exploration of roadway infrastructure resilience improvements at the Satuit Brook bridge and Edward Foster Road and bridge