Pollution Superstar #4: Save Our Sand

For more than 20 years, North Carolina has not allowed hardened structures on our 300 plus miles of coastline.  This has prevented landowners from building small jetties, or groins, to interrupt the natural flow of sand up and down the coast and keep the beach in front of their beachfront properties.

This long-standing ban will be lifted if a group of wealthy beachfront property owners and local officials called Save Our Sand gets their way.  According to the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western NC University, the hardened structures this group wants to allow on our beaches can:

• Reduce beach access
• Cause erosion of downdrift beaches
• Create potential hazard to swimmers 
• Reduce water quality by impeding circulation of water
• Impair aesthetics

So let me get this straight - these structures will make our beaches uglier, dirtier, more dangerous, and harder to get to?  Sounds like a great deal!  Click here to learn more and urge our legislature not to allow this to happen.

For their ongoing fight for their own property values over the public good, we crown Save Our Sand as a Pollution Superstar!

Who do you think should be a Pollution Superstar?  Let us know who and why in the comments.  And don't forget to make a donation today!