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BREAKWATER BREAKDOWN

September 19, 2007

Hard Water

With sea levels rising worldwide attributed to global warming, aren’t we approaching a day when all waterfront cities will need the protection of a breakwater? Doesn’t the Long Beach Breakwater—the massive wall of boulders that sits 1.5 miles off our shore—give this city a head start?
Nope. Breakwaters do not prevent tides, cannot restrain tsunami [...]

 

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