Long Island, New York Lesson For Mullins Bay, Barbados

Montauk, NY

Keeping in mind that jetties function as groynes this same scenario is playing out in Road View/Mullins while public officials are saying that the groynes at St. Peter's Bay have "NOT caused any more of an adverse effect than the renovation of the Bayfield area" - referring to a breakwater built in the 1950s on Mullins Beach. Sadly, these are the same people whose opinion will be sought when deciding how the US$30M recently procured from the Inter American Development Bank to address coastal erosion in Barbados is spent.

See also: JETTIES BLAMED FOR BEACH EROSION, MONTAUK NY

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