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Bullying Beaches in Delaware
- "Beaches once went where they pleased... Now we bully them into proper conduct... At Port Mahon, a seawall of steel and timber keeps the shore in place. At Pickering Beach, just to its south, scrap tires act as floating breakwaters to cut the erosive force of waves. Kitts Hummock has fixed breakwaters built of stone, sand-filled nylon bags, and precast concrete boxes, a demonstration project courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers. South of Lewes, at Ocean City, Maryland, a groin field keeps a wide berth of white sand in front of the big resort hotels, but only by starving another beach downstream." - excerpt from the book, Notes from the Shore, by Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Books, 1995, pp. 29-30.
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