See Tropical Storm Hanna's erosion impact at Emerald Isle and hear from the Shore Protection Manager Greg Rudolph.
Staff Video by Jason Arthurs / News and Observer
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Simple solutions
Fri, 04/09/2010 - 07:22 — scottlakinsSimple solutions boomerang
Cities like Miami Beach that built right up to the bluffs above the beach soon noticed that the bluffs were eroding, bringing the ocean a bit too close for comfort. (Naming a city after a beach did not mean the founders wanted to do the bucket-and-shovel thing on Ocean Drive.) The city responded by reinforcing the bluffs with sea walls. But the walls reflected wave energy back to the sea, accelerating erosion, and depriving the beaches of sand that normally erodes from bluffs. For both reasons, sea walls have fallen from favor.