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$500K sand dune designed to protect coastal homes washes away in just 3 days...
Residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away.
Yeah, loose sand isn't a stable protector against water. Especially after they previously experienced it many times.
I don't know what they were thinking.
The problems started in December 2022, with a winter storm days before Christmas not leaving presents, but taking tons and tons of sand that had formed those protective dunes.
What is the life expectancy of a house bordering the ocean? There's this and then places that get hit by hurricanes and the houses flood or get destroyed and then places like California where the cliffs collapse. I enjoy viewing the ocean, but I don't understand investing in a house there unless you consider the house disposable.
Anyone who's ever built a sandcastle at the beach should have known how this would play out.
The ocean is chipping away at natural land down on the Cape but someone thought they could just dump some sand on the beach and it would solve the problem?
What is the life expectancy of a house bordering the ocean? There's this and then places that get hit by hurricanes and the houses flood or get destroyed and then places like California where the cliffs collapse. I enjoy viewing the ocean, but I don't understand investing in a house there unless you consider the house disposable.
Making it worse is the attitude of many homeowners who don’t want dunes in front of their homes at all. When I lived in a beach community we had serious erosion every winter. The city tried to put dunes in to protect the beachfront homes but most of the homeowners resisted every step of the way. A couple even rented small bulldozers and took them down. Hey they wanted their views preserved. That’s all well and good if you don’t expect the government to rebuild your home, but they still want that, too.
State law prohibits "hard structures" along the coastline, like a seawall. Riprap may fall under that.
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