Plum Island storm damage
Residents of Plum Island dealt with the damage from Friday's high tide that affected several homes on the beach. A few months ago, homeowners paid for a controversial beach-scraping, in which bulldozers used sand to build a dune in front of houses.
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Plum Island has been continually reshaped by storms over the years. A resident Kathy Connors showed a picture from several years ago before the dunes were washed away.
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Studies have found that beach-scraping actually exacerbates the erosion.The storm washed the dunes and more away.
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Sam Joslin, the building commissioner for Newbury, said the beach-scraping had “at least saved us until the next event.”
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Workers moved sand in front of damaged houses on the beach in an effort to protect them from the next high tide.
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