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13436286262?profile=RESIZE_710xProtecting beaches from erosion is difficult enough, but extra steps are needed when man-made structures, such as the Boynton Inlet, block the natural southerly flow of sand. On the inlet’s Ocean Ridge side, rock groins have been placed to slow erosion, and an outfall pipe is designed to carry sand from the inlet’s transfer plant. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Communities struggle to preserve beaches amid storms, shifting coastline

Manalapan at odds with southern neighbors over sand transfer plant

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Editor's Note: Railroad crossing gates: Let’s cover all the lanes

I didn’t think I would be using my first editorial for The Coastal Star to advocate for something that should be totally unnecessary. Totally unnecessary, that is, if only you could trust people to use common sense. But then a fire truck being driven by a professional plays a game of rushin’ roulette on Delray Beach’s downtown railroad tracks — tracks that just happened to be loaded with an oncoming express train — and trust gets tossed aside just as easily as that Brightline passenger train…

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