Watch Hill, We Have A Problem

[JohnR]

Hat tip to Josiah for the heads up

http://www.theday.com/article/20131229/NWS05/312299934

But that was what I imagined Friday on an oceanside walk in Watch Hill when I came upon the fleet of big earth movers working on the cliff below Swift's mansion, busily, well, rearranging the rocky coastline.

One giant machine, part crane, was lifting big appliance-size boulders up out of the ocean with its mechanical claw and moving them.

"That's completely illegal," said a young man standing next to me, some distance away from the Swift beachfront, on a public promontory.

Looking distraught, he added that he is a surfer and is sure the changes to the ocean bottom will impact the quality of surfing there.

Go to the link and read the whole thing

http://www.theday.com/article/20131229/NWS05/312299934