Environmental Engineering Reference
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Fig. 2.18
The sea wall at St Ouen's Bay, Jersey, with the beach lowered by reflection scour.
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the artificial lowering of the shore profile has led to larger waves breaking on the
shore, and increased beach erosion.
Erosion has developed on intensively used beaches at seaside resorts, which
gradually lose sand as it is removed by visitors, adhering to their skin, clothes or
towels, or trapped in their shoes. The losses are small, but cumulative, and no one
brings sand to the beach. Pebbles and shells are also collected and carried away as
souvenirs by beach visitors.
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