The town is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources again for permission to extend the revetment along the western half of the shoreline, some 2,970 feet.
Worried that the piling was vulnerable and their homes were in danger, the town petitioned for permission to install a revetment — a layer of large, interlocking boulders along the shoreline — to protect their homes.State and federal officials relented eventually, allowing the revetment along the more vulnerable eastern half of the Ogden Dunes shoreline.Now the town is asking the U.S.
The appeal contends, among other issues, that DNR allowed an Ordinary High Water Mark — the boundary between the publicly-owned lakeshore and the privately-owned inland — that was lower than the one previously adopted by the state, which meant more stone could be placed there. “And shoreline hardening often leads to more shoreline hardening,” Save the Dunes said, “because sea walls, jetties, and revetments impede the natural accumulation of sand, perpetuating erosion farther and farther down the beach. …
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