by Rob Young | Dec 30, 2022 | Alabama Coastal News, Beach Management, Coastal News, Policy, Reports
The abstract says it all. But, please don’t think that the west end of Dauphin Island is an anomaly; rather, it is the norm. Lots of folks have been saying this for two decades including a nice piece in the NYT by Justin Gillis in 2012! But, Kiki Patsch and crew...
by Rob Young | Dec 12, 2022 | Beach Management, Coastal News, Policy, South Carolina Coastal News
Interesting effort in SC to challenge new septic permits based on the fact that these systems will fail soon after installation due to rising sea level. More from The State newspaper in...
by Rob Young | Dec 12, 2022 | Beach Management, Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Hurricanes and storms, Ian, 2022, Nicole, 2022, Policy
“I think we’re starting to discover that, despite our best efforts and wanting to throw as much money at this as possible, it has become very difficult to keep these beaches as wide as we would like to keep them,” Robert S. Young, a geology professor at Western...
by Rob Young | Dec 8, 2022 | All stories, Beach Management, Coastal News, North Carolina Coastal News, Opinion, Policy
Let’s be clear, this is largely an effort to save the beach houses, not the beaches. SLR doesn’t threaten the existence of most beaches, it just moves them. Certainly, there are portions of the OBX where the barrier island is very narrow and one could...
by Rob Young | Nov 15, 2022 | All stories, Beach Management, Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Policy
Someone explain to us why we spend millions of dollars to build a wide, renourished beach, then we mechanically clean that beach all the way up to the vegetation line, never allowing the natural vegetation to expand out onto the berm. This happens all over Florida, in...
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