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Cape Cod climate change: Erosion fight pits property vs environment

Cape Cod Times Gordon Peabody likes to say that his company, Safe Harbor, uses the power of the wind and waves to rebuild natural shoreline protections like beaches and dunes. One technique involves placing thousands of slats in random patterns on a beach mimicking stalks of beach grass. In theory, they slow down wave velocity causing the sand it carries to settle out and bulk up a beach instead of destroying it. If there s one trend Peabody has noticed in over 30 years of work, it s the raw power he thinks climate change has injected into storms. It s what he saw at Ballston Beach in Truro in 2013.  A megastorm, one of several big powerful winter storms that have besieged the Cape in recent years, developed off the coast as arctic air collided with a warm southern air mass. The storm spun hammered the coastline with hurricane-force winds, breaching an offshore sandbar and overrunning a coastal dune.

Blasch house erosion plan to go back before Wellfleet Conservation Commission

WELLFLEET The Conservation Commission is expected to consider potential shoreline protection measures to help save a controversial home on Great Island. After a recent court order, the commission will consider plans to install coir envelopes along the toe of an eroding coastal bank for the house at 1440 Chequessett Neck Road, which is known locally as the Blasch house. The commission will take up the issue at its Jan. 20 meeting, according to the town’s health and conservation agent Hillary Greenberg-Lemos. The 5,600-square-foot Great Island home sits atop an eroding dune between Wellfleet Harbor and Cape Cod Bay. The home, a common sight for anyone who walks along the popular hiking trail on the island, has been getting closer to the edge as the dune erodes and efforts by the owner to save it have been subject to local scrutiny. The home has also been the subject of multiple lawsuits, including one ongoing in Barnstable Superior Court. 

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