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Imaginative Remedies
Senator Joseph Tydings of Maryland has told Congress that coastal erosion costs the United States about $150 million a year. He has intro duced a bill authorizing the Army Corps of Engineers to make a three-year study of the problem. Desperate communities have tried many remedies. A Long Island township collected Christmas trees and stuck them into the sand. Dunes form ed around the trees, replacing those washed away in storms. A New Jersey town armored its beach with a barrier of junked cars in the hope of keeping the sand in place. But the ocean claimed the alien objects, and hurled them back in the form of twisted metal. Erosion continued. The1 aeach became littered with j razor-sharp scraps of metal dangerous to the bare feet of bathers. The town called off the program. Some geologists argue that coast protection is nearly hope less. Beach sand isconstantly In motion. Natural forces inexorably rearrange land forms, and it’s only a matter ef time. Geologists measure time in thousands, if not millions of 1 /ears, however, and many a [ coastal resident would be grateful if someone could just tiold back the sea until his nortgage is paid.
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