In defense of Groins;-
        Sea water and it's tides hate intrusions. It hates groins. It hates
irregularities. What it does is try to fill the irregularities with sand so it
can then erode the hated land areas in a consistantly regular way. Sea water has
no time schedule. It may take many years to fill between groins and begin eroding
a beach and its groins together. That's great. In the meantime, we people (always
on time schedules) may have the use of the trapped-sand beaches, offer our bodies
as sacrifices to the Sun-God, go crabbing and flotsam collecting by the groins,
and yell at the kids not to go out too far.
    Sounds fair to me.
        Art


Ellen Bulger wrote:

> I haven't read "The Corp and the Shore" yet, but Cornelia Dean's "Against the
> Tide" makes some persuasive arguments against beach hardening and
> replenishments. It's also a ripping good read.