By Jane Musgrave
A legal battle Manalapan launched to keep sand from being swept south from its shores has been delayed and it’s likely the long-running dispute will get bigger.
In what is shaping up to become a battle of coastal communities, Ocean R
Nate Kinbacher, manager of The Bridgehampton, hacks away at invasive Brazilian pepper plants
along the dunes in Delray Beach. His friend Jason Davis assists.
The berries of a Brazilian pepper plant.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Deborah
By Cheryl Blackerby
More than 100 people looking for long-term solutions for Palm Beach County’s storm-battered beaches crowded into the Boca Raton Resort and Club’s Valencia ballroom June 15 for the second meeting of Protect Our Beaches.
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By Tim O’Meilia
The newest plan for saving South Palm Beach’s fast-eroding shoreline is a series of seven buried groins dotting the beach from the Tuscany condominium to the Ritz-Carlton resort.
At least, that’s what the computers say.
“There’s enough
A walk along Manalapan’s beachfront is a dramatic illustration of the adage, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”
Towering steel seawalls riddled with huge, rusted, Swiss cheese-like holes lay bowed seaward before eroded pits where
Days of pounding waves during Hurricane Sandy left much of Delray Beach eroded. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
Delray Beach’s beach restoration, part of a routine, 10-year renourishment plan, will start in February, but beach p
Robb Barron in a healthy dune, standing in the midst of cocoplum, sea oats and sea lavender. Photos by Cheryl Blackerby/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
Robb Barron carefully tucked a sea oat seedling into a small hole in the sand, one of hund
By Tim O’Meilia
The Imperial House might not wash into the sea this hurricane season after all.
Construction of most of a new $500,000 seawall to protect the 58-unit cooperative fromunrelenting erosion was completed just as turtle-nesting season
