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One solution that has been put in place in other coastal states is the construction of hard structures like jetties, groins, and seawalls designed to hold beach sand in place. While these structures can protect beach homes and other buildings threatened by erosion, they’ve been criticized for causing increased erosion further down the beach. In 2003, the North Carolina state senate voted to adopt the seawalls ban as law. With no opposing votes, the senate banned the construction of new, permanent erosion control structures at the North Carolina coast. A Senate Bill proposed in 2009 would permit an exception to the state ban on seawalls. Because of the ban on seawalls, coastal property owners find themselves with no options for protecting their homes and businesses when the ocean inches closer. The seawalls ban, is not an official law, existed in practice for 15 years before it was brought in court in a 2000 case.The tourist opinions also feeds the controversy over the hard structures ban North Carolina has tried to avoid the problems than can be brought on by the …show more content…

When the water erodes the dunes around your house, you can’t sell it so you have nowhere to go. The solution is beach nourishment, they truck sand down to the beach and dump it. Because of the constantly shifting sands of North Carolina, beach nourishment is required to be done a lot. Beach nourishment has positive and negative effects. The positive effects are you get to keep using the beach. The negative effects, it 's bad for the environment and the animals that live or nest there such as sea turtles and crabs. So I think seawalls are necessary in some places so we can hold off erosion and not have to do beach nourishment. But it 's bad for the environment and the sea creatures so we should keep the number of hard structures to as little as

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