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Coastal Engineering Dredging Project
Two years after the Sconset Beach Preservation Fund’s massive $23 million beach nourishment project was rejected by island residents and ultimately withdrawn by the nonprofit group, a new scaled-back plan to stabilize the bluff and protect the homes along Baxter Road is in the works.
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Hope for Lake Hendricks
With the lake essentially sitting in the middle of a corn field, harmful chemicals and soil runoff leaking into the lake have polluted the water, rendering it impaired. Eliminating that harmful runoff from entering the river is the main challenge facing the Lake Hendricks Improvement District.
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Lake Michigan coastal erosion and bluff failures
In 2008, heavy rain triggered mudslides in Grant Park—with trees and chunks of land literally skidding down bluffs, across the beach, and into the lake—a sober reminder that coastal erosion poses a real threat along Lake Michigan.
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Construction underway to fix controversial, eroded West Atlantic City dune
Construction is underway on a $655,000 retrofit of a 4-year-old dune system in West Atlantic City that was designed to reduce flooding in a low-lying neighborhood on Lakes Bay
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A drive around most high-density suburbs, particularly Chitungwiza and Epworth, shows the shocking damage being done to the environment by sand poachers.
Reports say sand poaching is also rife in Bulawayo’s Magwegwe North, Nkulumane, Pumula and Cowdray Park suburbs. In Guruve a few years ago some families were actually forced to relocate as some of the gullies were encroaching into their homesteads.
Environmentalists say the sheer size of the gaping depressions is symptomatic of an environmental disaster.
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Town wrestles with bulkhead extension
WELLFLEET – Severe erosion

along and in front of Sewell's Gutter in Wellfleet poses a threat to public health and the environment, Dave Bennett, president of Bennett Environmental Associates, told selectmen last week.
Bennett, who is representing Tom Stossel and Kerry Maguire, the owners of the house at 5 Samoset Avenue, where the erosion is occurring, sought emergency approval from selectmen to extend the wood bulkhead 28 feet to the east of the current location to a concrete rubble revetment. Read more: Town wrestles with bulkhead extension - - Wicked Local Truro http://www.wickedlocal.com/wellfleet/topstories/x1145375952/Town-wrestles-with-bulkhead-extension#ixzz26YelbFmY
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REGION: Cardiff, Oceanside see beaches shrink
The battering that Cardiff’s coastline took last winter left it with a 52-foot-narrower beach at the start of the summer tourism season, according to a new assessment of San Diego County’s coastline.
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Council balks on beach erosion works
southern Tasmanian council has delayed erosion remediation work near Lauderdale, fearing it could be open to legal action by residents.
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Is there a better way for Wooli?
THE study into Wooli coastal erosion which has recommended a planned retreat from areas of the village at risk of being claimed by the ocean has been questioned by Cowper MP Luke Hartsuyker.
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Town wrestles with bulkhead extension
WELLFLEET — Severe erosion along and in front of Sewell's Gutter in Wellfleet poses a threat to public health and the environment, Dave Bennett, president of Bennett Environmental Associates, told selectmen last week.
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