New Chatham Cut - Bailout?

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

This is a natural event that occurs and re-occurs and will occur again. Anyone stupid enough to think that they can change a process that has shaped and re-shaped the land form of Cape Cod is shoveling sh!t against the tide. Trophy home owners who built million plus dollar homes were naieve in not considering the risk envolved in water front home ownership. Well too bad for them No self respecting ship Captain or native Cape Codder in the days past of old Cape Cod would have dared do that, mansions were for Main street. On the beach is too fraught with hazards and one should never tempt fate or Mother Nature.

Money wasted and south Village camp owners need to think about boat ownership.

Right On the Money Steve..

I will say, I think that south (second) village camp owners, should think of boat ownership for now.. and the fact that the 87 cut will prolly fill and connect to south beach..perhaps the Camp Owners, and the Chatham Board of Selectmen ought to think of setting it up for a point of access, and sell beach stickers, once the land bridge is complete ..
Yeah.. I'm dreaming... but dreaming big

[macojoe]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[clambelly]

Originally Posted by Karl F

perhaps the Camp Owners, and the Chatham Board of Selectmen ought to think of setting it up for a point of access, and sell beach stickers, once the land bridge is complete ..
Yeah.. I'm dreaming... but dreaming big

NOW YOU'RE TALKING!!!

[Saltheart]

I think if you grant a permit to build the house on the waterfront , you should also grant a permit to build a wall if the structure gets threatened.

i would be totally in favor of no building private property within some distance of the waterfront.

i always thought that in this time of supposed enlightenment about environmental issues and access , that all waterfront property should eventually become part of a public land bank. No more building on the aterfront and any house that gets sold would have to be sold to the state for fair market value. A property could be handed down within a family for zero dollars but if any money is to change change hands , the property must be sold to the state. In 200 years , there would be a belt of publicly owned land along all the shorelines with free access to all people.

i think RI made some huge mistakes in the last 10 years not buying and turning into state parks the property at rocky point and quonset point. those where once in a lifetime oppurtunities that they let slip by.

its a nice dream. I think maybe in the year 3007 , people might actually be enlightened and something like this could happen.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Mistakes aside...

in RI, (not speaking for mass)
the set-back distance to build now is 30x the annual erosion rate + 25ft of set back. Alot of lots are unbuildable because of that.

Again, building a wall or other structure is a terrible idea. good for the house behind it, but it cuts off the sediment supply to areas down drift of the longshore sediment transport, and can increase local erosion due to edge effects where the structure ends... Not to mention you just put a hard line in the sand, where the shoreline can no longer migrate landward as it is supposed to. given some time/erosion, the front of a seawall that was once passable is now impassable, as it is underwater at low tide and high-tide... think about the revetment at the East end of S.K Town beach in Matunuck.

As much as your beltway of land is a great idea, it is unfortunetly unrealistic. Given the cost of land along the waterfront, conservation groups and governments have a hard-time outbidding private landowners, and dont want to get into the lawsuits that result from taking the property.