Newsday: Long Island is changing, nowhere more so than on our coastline. Water and wind continue to sculpt our land.
We have not always responded well. We pump sand onto our beaches, watch it wash away, then pump sand again. We build too close to the waters edge, despair when the sea rushes in, then build again. We protect one part of our shoreline with bulkheads and groins, see how that damages other parts of the shore, then remake those very same structures when they weaken.
That became imperative...