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    Dredging has both positive and negative environmental impacts. It is beneficial for fishing villages and ports to expand but can damage habitats and disrupt food chains. Beach nourishment protects property from erosion but disturbs sediment and biological communities. While communities spend millions renourishing beaches after storms, rising sea levels will eventually inundate coastal areas despite these efforts. Dredging projects dig up sand offshore and dump it on beaches, potentially affecting sea life. Monitoring has shown that nourishment and inlet dredging have advanced shorelines in developed areas of South Carolina, but dredging damages ocean ecosystems.

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    Dredging has both positive and negative environmental impacts. It is beneficial for fishing villages and ports to expand but can damage habitats and disrupt food chains. Beach nourishment protects property from erosion but disturbs sediment and biological communities. While communities spend millions renourishing beaches after storms, rising sea levels will eventually inundate coastal areas despite these efforts. Dredging projects dig up sand offshore and dump it on beaches, potentially affecting sea life. Monitoring has shown that nourishment and inlet dredging have advanced shorelines in developed areas of South Carolina, but dredging damages ocean ecosystems.

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    Dredging has both positive and negative environmental impacts. It is beneficial for fishing villages and ports to expand but can damage habitats and disrupt food chains. Beach nourishment protects property from erosion but disturbs sediment and biological communities. While communities spend millions renourishing beaches after storms, rising sea levels will eventually inundate coastal areas despite these efforts. Dredging projects dig up sand offshore and dump it on beaches, potentially affecting sea life. Monitoring has shown that nourishment and inlet dredging have advanced shorelines in developed areas of South Carolina, but dredging damages ocean ecosystems.

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    Dredging has both positive and negative environmental impacts. It is beneficial for fishing villages and ports to expand but can damage habitats and disrupt food chains. Beach nourishment protects property from erosion but disturbs sediment and biological communities. While communities spend millions renourishing beaches after storms, rising sea levels will eventually inundate coastal areas despite these efforts. Dredging projects dig up sand offshore and dump it on beaches, potentially affecting sea life. Monitoring has shown that nourishment and inlet dredging have advanced shorelines in developed areas of South Carolina, but dredging damages ocean ecosystems.

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    Hicks 1

    Austin Hicks
    Mrs. DeBock
    English 4
    10 Nov. 2016
    Service Research
    Dredging is an important part of the coastal waters all around the world because it has
    both its bads and its goods. Dredging is good for fisherman and small fishing villages and also
    for small shipping ports to grow to hold biggers boats which then can change the rate of money
    flow. Dredging it bad for the environment and can destroy natural habitats for rare species and
    also it can kill of some small organisms that some fish eat and then the fish cant eat and it
    affects the food chain and it can sometimes lead to us
    As development of South Carolinas coastline continues, erosion presents a major
    problem especially on our barrier islands which support valuable residential properties and large
    portion of the state's tourism industry. Beach nourishment, the placement of sand onto eroding
    beaches, provides protection for beachfront property and restores the recreational value of
    beaches, but its impact on coastal ecosystems is complex and varies depending on the animals
    and location. Dredging results in long term negative changes in sediment characteristics, the
    borrow pit filled with md and sand, and biological communities in the borrow areas.
    The federal government should rethink the wisdom of spending money to renourish
    beaches as the sea levels rise and and coastal property in the Carolinas become increasingly close
    to the water's edge and is also causing some people to leave. Communities spend millions of
    dollars renourishing beaches. After every major hurricane people feel as if they need to renourish
    the beaches and put the sand back on the beaches. What people are not realizing is that the water

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    level is rising and is one day going to wipe out all the housing and tourism ocean front. Beach
    renourishment is not always good for mother nature, mother nature has its own ways of dealing
    with problems and adaptation to the new buildings and houses on the beaches and river sides.
    Dredging projects dig up sand from offshore, then dump it on beaches. Thats potentially
    affecting the sea life and animals that live on beaches.
    Thirty years of monitoring surveys and shoreline erosion studies along South Carolina
    coast shows that artificial beach nourishment and the natural process of inlet shoal bypassing
    have advanced the shoreline along most o f the developed beaches and barrier islands. South
    Carolina inlets in shown to play an important role in preserving the littoral sand budget,
    maintaining large sand reservoirs for bypassing and helping maintain the developed beaches in
    the United States. Low rates of erosion in other areas, such as the Grand Strand, combined with
    large scale nourishments have advanced those beaches well beyond historic conditions.
    Dredging the waterways and the inlets are bad for the environment. They do a lot of
    damage on the ecosystem and potentially can cut the food chains main source which is small
    organisms that live on the bottom of the ocean floor. If the ocean floor and the small organisms
    are destroyed then the food chain will crumble and eventually disappear. For humans that means
    we could lose all suspects of the fishing environment.

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    Graphs, 14 Maps. Coastal Reasearch, 21 Oct. 2012. Web. 21 Oct. 2012.

    Crowe, Stacie E., Ms. "Physical and Biological Alterations Following Dredging in Two Beach Nourishment Borrow
    Areas in South Carolina's Coastal Zone." Http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
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