Factoid/2007/07/25
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Restore the Shore in Long Beach, CA -- Sink the Obsolete Breakwater!
- "Decades ago, Long Beach was something of a surfing mecca, with wave-pounding beaches where legends like Duke Kahanamoku held the first national surf contest in 1938.About nine miles of solid rock changed that.The breakwater, a 50-foot-high wall of rock built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s, stopped the waves." - excerpt from this Los Angeles Times article.
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