Amity Chipman News Today

Help has been slow to arrive for working waterfronts damaged by severe coastal storms that are expected to become more common with climate change.

Kenneth Knauer, a project manager with Prock Marine, one of Maine’s largest marine contractors, is used to being busy. But the past few weeks have been an exception. “We’ve been getting phone calls pretty steady ever since the storms hit,” said...

Some waterfront property owners are rethinking wooden piers and docks in the aftermath of January's storms that flooded the Seacoast.

Back-to-back natural disasters caused significant damage to Maine's coastal infrastructure, leaving some wharf owners to wonder what it will take to rebuild and how they'll pay for it.

Fishing infrastructure, such as docks and roads, was damaged or wiped out up and down the coast by the 2 powerful storms that slammed Maine last week, and damages are likely to reach millions of dollars.

Then again, building a trap storage pier several feet higher would put the decks out of reach of a lobsterman standing on a boat.

Severe back-to-back storms that battered Maine's coastal communities just days apart brought seas and high winds, destroying boats and wharfs in its path.