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As one who owns oceanfront property, I am opposed to all human intervention to impede nature. If one wishes to build a home, fine the risk is theirs.
I have seen firsthand how human intervention has caused negative unintended consequences. The breakwater in PTown forever changed the flow of sand around the inside of the cape to N. Truro. Sea walls caused more erosion than without them... and more.
As a boy I went to sailing camp on Pleasant Bay and we used to sail inside the protection of the barrier beach all the way to the sound and Monomoy. Then the 87 or 89 storm (I forget) broke through in front of the light. If memory serves me, I've read that in the early 1900's it was like that only to fill in over time.
Let it be. Those with property should know and bear the risk themselves. They certainly don't share the increase in their porperty value with the taxpayers.
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