Beach Erosion Cape Cod
In dennis chapin beach loses an astounding 10 feet of beach annually according to a.
Beach erosion cape cod. Where the little bench for viewing was. It showed a photograph where the water had proceeded past where the trail to the beach ends. Erosion along the nauset monomoy barrier system can move the beach anywhere from 1 to 6 meters a year 3 to 20 feet. Easterly storms that eat up beach sand will soon taper off and.
This year homeowners on cape cod mass are bracing for the worst. Cape cod national seashore maintenance chief karst hoogeboom agreed adding sacrificial sand doesn t really slow the rate of erosion safe harbor environmental services director gordon peabody remembers a six foot dune lined with vegetation that once existed on the beach in front of the blasch house. More than 100 tree stumps that are believed to be up to 1 000 years old have been exposed. On the mid and upper cape it s the beaches along cape cod bay where erosion is taking the biggest toll.
Sea level rise a least one foot in the past century is also slowly taking away the beachfront. Between the two the sea could reclaim cape cod in five or six thousand years. Cape cod national seashore facilities director karst hoogeboom said there hasn t been a lot of damage to national park beaches either. Laura wing lives in a beachfront home in.