Living shorelines protect from erosion

Published September 24, 2012 4:01am ET



NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Paula Hersh has lived on the water for years, and has the eroded shorelines and property damage to prove it.

In 1996, Hersh said, Hurricane Fran eroded the bulkhead at her home in Mobjack Bay on the Middle Peninsula. In 2003, Isabel overrode the revetment armor on her embankment and took the house.

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