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Recent Examples of seawall
Shore said the aging seawall is long overdue for reassessment.
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Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
In March last year, one permit proposal called for repairs to the bluff below 5322 Calumet, extending an erodible concrete seawall — which is designed to recede at the same pace as the earth around it — that was built after a bluff failure in 2010.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 June 2026
Go all the way to the end of Namquid Drive, then follow the pathway from the small parking area down to the seawall.
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Antonia Noori Farzan,
The Providence Journal,
27 May 2026
That program covers up to 100% of the permitting fees for living-seawall projects.
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Carlton Gillespie,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2026
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Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
In March last year, one permit proposal called for repairs to the bluff below 5322 Calumet, extending an erodible concrete seawall — which is designed to recede at the same pace as the earth around it — that was built after a bluff failure in 2010.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 June 2026
Go all the way to the end of Namquid Drive, then follow the pathway from the small parking area down to the seawall.
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Antonia Noori Farzan,
The Providence Journal,
27 May 2026
That program covers up to 100% of the permitting fees for living-seawall projects.
—
Carlton Gillespie,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seawall
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The city is also looking at water circulation around the pier, specifically how the breakwater changes the environment, Parry said.
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The shark was apparently first found wedged in rocks by the breakwater at Salty Brine State Beach in Galilee, but then the shark freed itself and started swimming in circles.
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Anglers of all experience levels crowd fishing piers, line jetties, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder below the spillways just to wet a line.
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Wind whipped whitecaps across the sea, and waves crashed against a nearby jetty.
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The house sits on a road tucked alongside a steep railroad embankment, where tracks carry rumbling trains to a rail yard in the village of fewer than 1,000 residents.
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The house where the children were found sits on a road tucked away alongside a steep railroad embankment, where tracks carry rumbling trains through Hamden.
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Multiple levee breaches inundated the entire Lower Ninth Ward during the storm, killing many and damaging or destroying thousands of homes.
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Maintaining urban wetlands can help reduce flooding, protect property and recharge groundwater more effectively and for less money than building and maintaining levees.
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Other risks to metal production from El Nino include the potential for aluminum and zinc shortages caused by low water levels in hydroelectric dams in China’s southern Yunnan province.
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Montezuma County officials also ordered evacuations for private lands in the lower Dolores River corridor, from the dam to Bradfield Bridge, Ferris fire officials said.
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More than 1 billion gallons of ash spilled into waterways and neighboring properties after a dike ruptured.
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This is absolutely elite stuff all around, a whirlwind of the Knicks finding the net opening and making the right play, and the Spurs scrambling like mad to plug each new hole in the dike before finally Wembanyama seals it with a block at the rim.
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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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