Sandy Beaches

More then 650 miles of New England and Mid-Atlantic shore lines are being eroded 1.6 feet per year. The most extreme could be 60 feet per year. Beach erosion has occurred, because of unavailable sand, storms, human activities, and the rise of sea-level. In the past 25 - 30 years scientist saw a small reduction in the percentage of beaches eroding, because of restoration activities such as adding sand to beaches. Shorelines have changed in more than 21,000 locations.

Beach erosion is when wind, water, and ice take away sediments of land. When earthquakes occur on areas with steep slopes many times the soil slips causing landslides. Human activities have always been a main cause of land slides throughout the world. In California and Virginia have no rocks and it is eroding quicker then Maine's coast.

I think people should add rocks to beaches because sand goes a lot quicker then rocks go. Kinda like Maine's coast there is a lot of rocks unlike California's coast all they have sand and nothing els. That is why it goes quicker then Maine's coast. I think people should make this a bigger deal then it is because if we add sand to beach's that is not good. What if we run out of beach sand what will happen then? That is why we should make it a bigger deal.