Talk:Seawall

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Rock apron

what is a rock apron? there is no article on this therefore I think that a small explanation may be needed.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.132.92 (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Difference

Can anybody explain the difference between a Sea wall and a breakwater? --Feministo (talk) 17:07, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I understand it, a seawall is built onshore, where a breakwater may be built offshore, and may be connected to shore. Karanne (talk) 21:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedic?

The last section of this article, "Advanced Numerical Study," sounds like somebody plugging their own original research (literally). As a CFD professional (20+ years in the trade at university research centers, government labs, software vendors, and industry), it doesn't even sound all that "advanced" - I was doing similar stuff 10 years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.61.141 (talk) 14:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good point! it serves no function in the article. There are some other major issues with the article, hence my efforts at re-shaping it from the top down Anglian Type Site (talk) 22:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History??

A 'History' section should surely be that of seawalls in general? not a 'Case History' of a particular event!!!....It needs removing and a history of seawalls provided, maybe with reference to certain exemplary locations from which the nature and uses of seawalls can be highlighted. Also, could Nsaum75 please give a reason for twice replacing an external reference to the head of the article, when similar examples of seawalls are confined to a list at the foot of the article...what makes this geographic reference so specialthat it precedes all else? Cheers! DS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anglian Type Site (talk • contribs) 12:32, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Protects in note 2?!

17 nov edit added text in note 2. Should be placed after the ref as a whole; also, better in the text itself? Please have a closer look.Super48paul (talk) 10:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image Caption

"An example of a modern seawall in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight (Discarded barrels not part of wall)" This caption is incorrect. The 'discarded barrels' in the image are actually Tetrapods 144.124.209.86 (talk) 13:07, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. μc8 (talk) 13:53, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jersey Shore

New Jersey Southern Railroad built a 2,000-foot trestle and a seawall on the ocean side of the narrow peninsula town of Sea Bright, New Jersey in the 1870s, and rebuilt it again in 1881.^[1] The state built a new seawall starting in 1946 into the 1950s. ^[2] By the late 1980s, the seawall had seriously deteriorated and repairs were undertaken in 1990.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Geffken, Rick (September 19, 2016). "Sea Bright's Seawall Saved More than the Town". Retrieved 7 May 2017. New Jersey Southern Railroad constructed a 2,000-foot trestle and a seawall, or jetty, on the ocean side of the narrow peninsula in the 1870's. Severe storms with easterly winds, such as the Blizzard of March 1888 and a September 1889 blow, piled snow and sand dunes over the tracks, washing them out and interrupting train travel for days on end. High tides constantly washed rocks and other debris on the rails. Both trestle and seawall were continually reinforced and rebuilt after 1881.
^ "Development of the Jersey Shore". Retrieved 5 May 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Gornitz, Vivien; Couch, Stephen; Hartig, Ellen K. (2001). "Impacts of sea level rise in the New York City metropolitan area" (PDF). CUNY: 72. Sea Bright, a residential community located on the southern part of the Sandy Hook spit, on the northern New Jersey shoreline, has a long history of exposure to storm and wave action. Starting in 1913, a set of 85 groins were constructed throughout the area, and in 1922, a 120-m breakwater was completed in Sea Bright. In the 1950s, a seawall was built between Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach (Gorman and Reed, 1989). By the late 1980s, the seawall had seriously deteriorated and repairs were undertaken in 1990 (Bocamazo, 1991). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Gornitz, Vivien; Couch, Stephen; Hartig, Ellen K. (2001). "Impacts of sea level rise in the New York City metropolitan area" (PDF). CUNY: 72. Sea Bright, a residential community located on the southern part of the Sandy Hook spit, on the northern New Jersey shoreline, has a long history of exposure to storm and wave action. Starting in 1913, a set of 85 groins were constructed throughout the area, and in 1922, a 120-m breakwater was completed in Sea Bright. In the 1950s, a seawall was built between Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach (Gorman and Reed, 1989). By the late 1980s, the seawall had seriously deteriorated and repairs were undertaken in 1990 (Bocamazo, 1991). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Orgasm?

Unless the word 'orgasm' has a dual meaning in the context of coastal erosion I propose that it be removed from the introduction of this article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.12.47.57 (talk) 15:38, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ecosystem Issues

I am planning on adding a short Ecosystem Issues sub-section to the "Issues" sectionBiostudent2 (talk) 19:14, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Guyana

Guyana would make an excellent addition to the example section! Most of the country's economic/urban areas lie on a coastal plain that are protected by a sea wall made when it was a Dutch colony. There's already related articles Sea Wall, Guyana and Hope Canal. Including Guyana also helps improve global balance to this article, too. I'd be happy to add the section myself, but I feel like the tone of this article is better for someone with a stronger engineering knowledgebase. Cheers, Estheim (talk) 11:25, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Qiantang River Seawall

Entire Hangzhou network under the Qing, spanning multiple prefectures across two provinces

Obviously, more needs to be included about the millennia of work done regarding seawalls in China, particularly around the Hangzhou Bay and Qiantang River tidal bore. One issue might be that this entire topic is poorly differentiated from levee/dyke/dike, where more of the Chinese articles point. — LlywelynII 11:03, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Geffken, Rick (September 19, 2016). "Sea Bright's Seawall Saved More than the Town". Retrieved 7 May 2017. New Jersey Southern Railroad constructed a 2,000-foot trestle and a seawall, or jetty, on the ocean side of the narrow peninsula in the 1870's. Severe storms with easterly winds, such as the Blizzard of March 1888 and a September 1889 blow, piled snow and sand dunes over the tracks, washing them out and interrupting train travel for days on end. High tides constantly washed rocks and other debris on the rails. Both trestle and seawall were continually reinforced and rebuilt after 1881.

[2] "Development of the Jersey Shore". Retrieved 5 May 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[3] Gornitz, Vivien; Couch, Stephen; Hartig, Ellen K. (2001). "Impacts of sea level rise in the New York City metropolitan area" (PDF). CUNY: 72. Sea Bright, a residential community located on the southern part of the Sandy Hook spit, on the northern New Jersey shoreline, has a long history of exposure to storm and wave action. Starting in 1913, a set of 85 groins were constructed throughout the area, and in 1922, a 120-m breakwater was completed in Sea Bright. In the 1950s, a seawall was built between Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach (Gorman and Reed, 1989). By the late 1980s, the seawall had seriously deteriorated and repairs were undertaken in 1990 (Bocamazo, 1991). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[4] Gornitz, Vivien; Couch, Stephen; Hartig, Ellen K. (2001). "Impacts of sea level rise in the New York City metropolitan area" (PDF). CUNY: 72. Sea Bright, a residential community located on the southern part of the Sandy Hook spit, on the northern New Jersey shoreline, has a long history of exposure to storm and wave action. Starting in 1913, a set of 85 groins were constructed throughout the area, and in 1922, a 120-m breakwater was completed in Sea Bright. In the 1950s, a seawall was built between Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach (Gorman and Reed, 1989). By the late 1980s, the seawall had seriously deteriorated and repairs were undertaken in 1990 (Bocamazo, 1991). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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