Sunday, June 3, 2012

Stay or go? Communities are eyeing retreat from sea
[ Sun, 3 Jun 2012 01:17:33 GMT ]

Coastal erosion eats away at the parking lot at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. In San Francisco, officials are mulling a significant retreat on its western flank, where the Great Highway is under assault from the Pacific Ocean. Right now, a beach parking lot that abuts the highway is crumbing into the sea just across the highway from the San Francisco Zoo.Up and down the California coast, some communities are deciding it's not worth trying to wall off the encroaching ocean. Until recently, the thought of bowing to nature was almost unheard of.


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