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Costly Beach Fill for Whom at Whose Expense?

"Why should we, the taxpaying public, be responsible for this really, really arrogant act of lining up buildings on a shoreline that's well-known to be eroding and at a time that the sea level is rising? If they think it's worth saving, then let them save it themselves with their money,..." - quote from Orrin Pilkey, director of Duke University's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, from the article at http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8284

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