NC Coastal News
The Montauk saga continues:
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Montauk Sand Here, Gone Again | The East Hampton Star
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A portion of the sand placed on the downtown Montauk beach to cover sandbags exposed by a series of storms washed away over the weekend as yet another northeaster swept through the region.PSDS beach nourishment database referred to in the following:
science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/remediation/adding-sand-not-enough-to-save-bea...
Adding Sand Not Enough to Save Beaches
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As sea levels rise with climate change, beaches are losing ground against ever-encroaching waters. Trucking in sand may seem like a good idea, but the evidence, while not yet conclusive, may show othe...www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-climate-crops/
Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner
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The future of food looks like lots of lobsters, Polish chardonnay and California coffee.Andy addresses the terminal groin at Holden.
www.coastalreview.org/2018/04/public-weighs-in-on-holden-beach-groin-plan/
Public Weighs In on Holden Beach Groin Plan | Coastal Review Online
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Most who spoke Friday during a Holden Beach town commissioners meeting voiced opposition to the $34.4 million plan to build a terminal groin at the east end of the beach.The consulting firm designing the new beach project at Hunting Island has determined the the groins cause no downdrift harm. Yeah, I don't see any.
www.islandpacket.com/latest-news/article207419979.html
Hunting Island's beach is getting a facelift. These objections are setting it back.
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A Hunting Island State Park beach renourishment project was expected to begin in early 2018 at the Beaufort County, SC, park. The project will begin later then expected as the DHEC permit is appealed.From the archives, Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young moving the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse:
Bet they will be happy to take public money post storm though:
www.wtsp.com/mobile/article/news/local/florida/floridas-public-beaches-wont-be-so-public-anymore-...
Florida's public beaches won’t be so public anymore under new law
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Starting July 1st, you'll have to pay more attention to the sand – is it wet or is dry?www.eenews.net/stories/1060077703
SEA-LEVEL RISE: Raising an entire island? That's 'insane'
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- An aqua-blue bay filled with white boats surrounds Balboa Island. In recent years, the bay has gushed over an aging sea wall when major storms strike at high tide. To alleviat...Can we all please sigh a big "Whatever!!"
www.postandcourier.com/news/charleston-gets-a-visit-from-the-real-flood-control-experts/article_0...
Charleston gets a visit from the real flood control experts, but can the Dutch really help here?
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The Dutch are to flood control what the Germans are to automotive engineering or the French are to cheese, and the Netherlands' expertise soon might help the Lowcountry.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/the-paris-climate-accords-are-starting-to-look-like-fantasy...
The Paris Climate Accords Are Looking More and More Like Fantasy
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And they are the only thing keeping us from planet-wide environmental catastrophe.We have been working on this with our friends in Nantucket for several years:
www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-19/nantuckets-bluffs-and-beaches-are-crumbling-face-storms-and-rising...
Nantucket's bluffs and beaches are crumbling in the face of storms and rising seas
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On Nantucket, homeowners are funding an extensive engineering project to save their houses from sliding into the sea. But no one knows how long the homes and the entire island can resist the forces of...www.facebook.com/CapeLookoutNPS/videos/1734848623202617/
Cape Lookout National Seashore
New overwash inlet on the northern end of South Core Banks in Cape Lookout National Seashore from coastal storm March 2018
Awesome!
USGS Coastal and Ocean Science
Nor'Easter impacts in Sandwich, Massachusetts!
The USGS operated a beach cam at Sandwich Town Neck Beach, MA to monitor coastal change and provide ground truth for modelling efforts. The recent Nor’Easter March 2-4 was forecast to have major coastal impacts in this area. Water levels rose to record levels with a combination of spring tides, storm surge, and wave action. Water levels were about 1 meter above the spring high tide elevations. The damage from the slow-moving storm was extended over four high-tides, beginning Friday morning and extending into early Sunday morning. These images and the corresponding video demonstrate the power of this storm on the coastal area. #USGS #extremestorms #coastalchangehazards #sealevelrise #erosion #noreaster #townneckbeach #beachcam
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USGS Coastal and Ocean Science
Coastal and shoreline change related to storms and sea-level rise!
Dr. Erika Lentz, USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center research geologist, talks nor'easter impacts with Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel on Peggotty Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts.
#usgs #coastsalchange #erosion #sealevelrise #waves #winterstormriley #eyeofthestorm Weatherchannel #shorelinechange
Learn more about coastal landscape response to sea-level rise for the Northeastern United States woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_response/index.html
SCOURING AT SOUTHERN END OF SCONSET SEAWALL
**Seawalls are shore parallel structures designed to protect property from coastal erosion. Any structure that is designed to combat storm erosion by reflecting waves and surge is effectively a seawall. If a line of geotubes (geotextile, sand filled tubes) remains in tact during storm wave attack, then the geotubes are acting like a seawall and will have identical impacts.
So, one must keep in mind that if a wall of geotubes works as designed, that wall will have the same impacts as a seawall.
1) When placed on an eroding or retreating beach or bluff, geotubes will cause that beach to narrow and eventually disappear.
2) Erosion will be increased at the ends of the wall, the so-called “end effect.” The end effect is the result of waves diffracting around the edges of the wall during storms or high water events. It results in a clear increase in erosion at the margins of the geotube wall.
3) The wall will eliminate the natural sediment supply that would come to the beach through erosion of the bluff behind the wall.**
Expert testimony submitted to the Conservation Commission in 2013 during the public hearing on the SBPF Notice of Intent to install the 900-foot seawall by Dr. Robert Young, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines. The science is clear and irrefutable: Hard armoring destroys beaches. This is one of the reasons the Conservation Commission declined to permit the geotube seawall which sits on a beach owned by the citizens of Nantucket. The decision of the ConCom was overruled by the State on appeal by SBPF.
— With thanks to Kindflow Productions for this photo taken yesterday at the southern return of the geotube seawall. #nantucket #beaches #savenantucketbeaches #erosionhappens #leaveperfectalone #ourbeachesneedus
We wonder when NTB will grow tired of spending money on one of the most precarious shorelines on the US East Coast:
www.coastalreview.org/2018/03/n-topsail-board-hears-terminal-groin-plan/
N. Topsail Board Hears Terminal Groin Plan | Coastal Review Online
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A design firm presented its preliminary preferred alternative to aldermen in erosion-prone North Topsail Beach last week, suggesting application for federal and state permits to build a 2,000-foot ter...