Public interest vs. private homes: Climate change and erosion fuel disputes along Lake Michigan’s shoreline
residents who say his plans to build breakwater structures would cut off the lakefront access endowed to them by the Illinois’ doctrine.The public trust doctrine is based in property law so it is more durable than the variety of environmental regulations across the country that can be subject to political whims. As recently appointed justices and government officials have taken anti-regulatory stances, the doctrine has become more important for environmentalists, said Fischman.
Lake Michigan’s current moves sand in a conveyor belt fashion along the coastline. The biggest waves come from the north. Since the Indiana shoreline angles down from east to west, the large waves from the north carry sand the same direction. However, revetments restrict wave action, impeding this natural flow of sand.
Save the Dunes advocates say they understand Ogden Dunes is suffering the consequences of the international harbor’s infrastructure, but shoreline hardening needs to stop somewhere, especially before it threatens the Indiana Dunes National Park. Save the Dunes agrees that something must be done but, instead of revetments, advocates for beach nourishment, the process of manually adding sand to the beach.“ is the best solution,” Maher said. “If we bring the sand in, the sand will accumulate.”
“This should be sort of a near-miss or a cautionary tale for the shoreline because there’s no guarantee that when we have the next high water period, we’re going to have a nice long period of low water where the beaches can grow to buffer that high-water erosion,” Troy said.
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