The state's Office of Coastal Zone Management would be well served by giving Newbury a chance to try beach scraping as a means of rebuilding damaged dunes on Plum Island. Why? Because as taxpayers ...

Work to repair the beach on the south end of Pawleys Island is going faster than expected. R.E. Goodson Construction is repairing the beach using a process called beach scraping, where bulldozers push ...

PLUM ISLAND — A state-organized technical committee relied on negative studies when it concluded that artificially enhancing shorefront dunes by moving sand from low-water areas "would likely increase ...