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Introduction
Reading Your Shoreline
Identifying Your Objectives
Designing Your Shoreline

Lakeshore Design Process

Developing a Working Plan

Implementing Your Project
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Developing a Planting Plan: Estimating Materials & Costs

Calculator time! We begin by developing estimates for the materials that will be needed:
  • Seeds
  • Plants
  • Erosion control blankets & staking
  • Shredded wood mulch
  • Wavebreakers & anchors
For an idea of the range of costs and labor associated with different approaches, visit the Shore Lore Section of the CD.

An easy way to estimate your costs is with the Cost Estimate Worksheet. It is designed for your personal project. Just print out the worksheet and add it to your Project Folder. When finished, use the red "Back" button at top to return to this page.

The Cost Estimate Worksheet is an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file that requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader 5.0 or newer to open. If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed or are having trouble opening the form, click the button at right to "run" the Acrobat Reader 5.05 installer program from it's current location on this CD.