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Gandy's Beach is currently a Nature Conservancy Preserve along an area of undeveloped shoreline on the Delaware Bay that provides valuable habitat for a variety of fish and wildlife. Its shore has been increasingly vulnerable to coastal erosion and was considerably impacted by storm surge from Hurricane Sandy. This project includes the building of a shell-based living shoreline one mile offshore that will act as a breakwater and protect about one mile of sandy beach shoreline and adjacent salt marsh. Once constructed, the breakwater is projected to reduce incoming wave energy by up to 40 percent.

Photo credit: Adrianna Zito-Livingston/The Nature Conservancy

More information about this Hurricane Sandy resilience project: www.fws.gov/hurricane/sandy/projects/GandysBeach.html

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Source Building oyster reef breakwater structures or castles at Gandy's Beach
Author U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region
Camera location39° 16′ 20.31″ N, 75° 14′ 05.45″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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