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Relentless Sculptors
A sturdy sandbar was removed from Homer's Munson
Point in the early 1940s to provide fill for a new
airport runway. Since then, the seabluff has lost
180 feet of beachfront, as determined by studying
aerial photographs taken over the past 30 years. This
averages six feet per year.
Bulldozers Backfill New Seawall
Battered by Storm Waves
© Homer News
Wind-Whipped Wall
Heroic and often poorly conceived attempts to save
this coastline have been challenged by the even more
heroic forces of nature. A rock-battered section of
fiberglass seawall, installed for less than two months,
was shredded in a severe storm.
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