Photo source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Construction workers using heavy machinery filled a football-field sized hole the Atlantic Ocean eroded from a recently built man-made dune in Gilgo Beach over the weekend, threatening Ocean Parkway, officials said.
The eroded piece of 20-foot-wide dune is part of a 5-mile stretch of dune built in a $33-million Sandy recovery project that reopened damaged areas of Ocean Parkway in April…
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Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill Fails to Face Coastal Realities, By Pr. Rob Young.
As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms…
