Beach Recovery

Foundation

Gallery

Take your time here. The shoreline changes slowly, and the record is best read the same way.

Three-panel record of one shoreline: crews installing early geotextile tubes along a severely eroded beach backed by riprap and a bluff-top house in 2000; the same stretch in 2003 with a wide sand beach and dune grass returning; and the same view in 2017 with established vegetation across the restored profile.
One site, three visits: circa 2000, circa 2003 and circa 2017.

Video

Both films play here on this page. Neither starts on its own.

United Nations, 20 January 2016

Gregory Sarno's address on beach erosion and coastal accretion engineering, delivered at the United Nations.

Time-lapse after installation

The change along an installed shoreline, filmed over time.

Look book

The look book follows eroded shorelines through the installation of a Coastal Accretion Design and out the other side, as the beach profile re-forms. It is reproduced here in full, page by page, from the Shoreline Recovery and Protection Systems proof-of-concept document.

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  1. Page 1 of 18

    Coastal Stabilization Proof of Concept

    Look book page 1: Coastal Stabilization Proof of Concept

  2. Page 2 of 18

    The Cost of an Eroded Shoreline

    Look book page 2: The Cost of an Eroded Shoreline

  3. Page 3 of 18

    Why Hard Structures Fail

    Look book page 3: Why Hard Structures Fail

  4. Page 4 of 18

    The Recovery Process

    Look book page 4: The Recovery Process

  5. Page 5 of 18

    How Accretion Works

    Look book page 5: How Accretion Works

  6. Page 6 of 18

    Installation

    Look book page 6: Installation

  7. Page 7 of 18

    Permitting Pathway

    Look book page 7: Permitting Pathway

  8. Page 8 of 18

    Proof of Concept Overview

    Look book page 8: Proof of Concept Overview

  9. Page 9 of 18

    Grand Haven, Michigan

    Look book page 9: Grand Haven, Michigan

  10. Page 10 of 18

    Manistee, Michigan

    Look book page 10: Manistee, Michigan

  11. Page 11 of 18

    Lakeside, Michigan

    Look book page 11: Lakeside, Michigan

  12. Page 12 of 18

    Muskegon County, Michigan

    Look book page 12: Muskegon County, Michigan

  13. Page 13 of 18

    Douglas, Michigan

    Look book page 13: Douglas, Michigan

  14. Page 14 of 18

    Additional Shoreline Evidence

    Look book page 14: Additional Shoreline Evidence

  15. Page 15 of 18

    Independent Engineering Validation

    Look book page 15: Independent Engineering Validation

  16. Page 16 of 18

    Independent Supporting Documents

    Look book page 16: Independent Supporting Documents

  17. Page 17 of 18

    Evidence Register — Citation Detail

    Look book page 17: Evidence Register — Citation Detail

  18. Page 18 of 18

    Delivery and Engagement

    Look book page 18: Delivery and Engagement

Photography

Only supplied, documented project imagery appears here. Everything else is held with a plain field of Beach Recovery Blue rather than a stock photograph.