What is hard armoring? What are its impacts on the shoreline?
The natural character of shorelines and many organisms living there depend on a continuous and uninterupted relationship between upland areas and the water. Beaches depend on erosion to supply sand and gravel. Hard armoring interrupts this natural relationship. Property owners use hard armoring to protect an owner’s preference for how the waterfront edge should look or limit property loss by erosion. Armoring prevents the supply of new material for beach formation and disturbs other ecological functions.
