The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning critical defenses against erosion for Old Fort Niagara—part of a project to stabilize a portion of the Lake Ontario shoreline.
The project is starting its $760,000 design phase. The most significant impacts are immediately east of the fort’s masonry seawall and concrete-capped sheet pile footer.
Considerable erosion along the shoreline of Lake Ontario at Old Fort Niagara and New York’s Fort Niagara State Park makes the wall around the fort vulnerable.
The current plan includes reconstruction of the slope of the shoreline with 121 m (400 ft) of stone revetment stretching east from the end of the fort’s masonry wall along the eroding bluff, better protecting against future erosion.
The Old Fort Niagara Emergency Shoreline Protection project’s design is now underway and expected to be completed in January 2025.
