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...NOTEBOOK: Christine Burns (groin) and Char Joslin (wisdom teeth) did not suit up for the game. Their status is day-to-day...The Crimson outshot B.C., 44-3...Brita Lind, Nina Simonds, and Co-Captain Johanna Neilson also scored for Harvard...Dooley commented about the slow, unsurfaced ice in the third period: "I liked the slow ice, because [we] could work off the [Thanksgiving] turkey," he joked...
...variant on the seawall that can also hasten erosion is riprap -- rocks and boulders piled into makeshift barriers to absorb the force of incoming waves. While seawalls and riprap run parallel to the beach, groin fields extend directly out into the water. Made up of short piers of stone extending from the beach and spaced 100 yds. or so apart, they can slow erosion by trapping sand carried by crosscurrents. But down current, the lack of drifting sand can result in worse erosion. "It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul," says Leatherman -- a concept the O'Malleys of Westhampton...
Jetties can cause beach larceny on an even grander scale. Long concrete or rock structures, they jut out into the water to keep inlets and harbors navigable by keeping sand and silt from drifting in. Like groin fields, jetties can keep sand from replenishing beaches down current. The construction 90 years ago of a pair of jetties to improve the harbor at Charleston, S.C., altered currents and natural sand drift so drastically that there is no beach left at high tide at nearby Folly Beach. In Florida an estimated 80% to 85% of the beach erosion on the state...
Environmentalists criticize the Army Corps for relying on anti-erosion schemes -- seawalls, jetties and groin fields -- that often cause more problems than they solve. "The Army Corps of Engineers has had a long, checkered history," says Gary Griggs, a professor of coastal geology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Still, he admits, the Army Engineers "have done better recently." Says Charles Rooney, the corps's chief of civil projects in New York: "The state of the art in coastal engineering has improved. We understand more than we used to. We build smaller to allow the bypassing of sand...
...when Heinz pulled his groin before the first game of the Turner Cup Finals, the decision was made to put Blair--who hadn't played in a month--in the nets against the Muskegon Lumberjacks...