🚀 go-pugleaf

Vote NO on Ed.

In article <19981026023322.07591.00000876@ng59.aol.com>,
DJ Dre <djdre@aol.com> wrote:
>Would someone care to go into the ecological ramifications of this plan?  I
>don't really think riverbank stabilization has direct correlations to
>oceanfront riprap.  But I could be wrong

Moving water will pick up sediment. If it doesn't pick it up from the
protected bank, it will pick it up from the next available place. This
starts a chain reaction that results in rivers like those in Los
Angeles where the entire riverbank is concrete. Do we want to pay for a 
concrete gutter running through the city?

In the case of riprap on the beach, if the beach sand supply is cut off
from one place, more sand will be taken from the other sources. YOUR riprap
protected sea cliff may last longer, but your neighbor's erodes faster.
And the funny part is that once your neighbor's cliff erodes enough for the
water to get to your cliff, yours erodes too. You get left with a pile of
riprap on the beach.