Living with the East Florida Shore

by Dinesh C. Sharma, Harold P. Wanless, Deborah F. Pilkey, et al.

More than one transplanted Floridian has paid $150,000 for a beautiful condominium with a sea view only to learn that, to keep the building from becoming part of the view, considerable additional money must be spent to build and repair seawalls or to pump up new beaches by dredging sand from offshore. Most of Florida's beachfront property lies on narrow strips of sand called barrier islands, which are low in elevation and subject to flooding during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822305151
• ISBN13: 9780822305156
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 6.0"