I just received a few pictures via email showing a couple of pictures of the beachfront in Ocean Beach, Fire Island during a recent storm. The pictures showed one house in the surfline and another showed the stairs leading from behind the dunes to the beach in the air above ground that had been eroded away by wave action. I am not sure what the current status of the dunes in Ocean Beach are, but this is clearly a problem that will increase in years to come. As more rivers are plugged and jeddis, like those in front of Ocean Beach, cause more erosion problems up and down the beach, sand will become more and more of a scarce resource on the barrier beaches of New York and the Atlantic coastline.

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