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| | The Maine Shore and the Army Corps: A Tale of Two Harbors, Wells and Saco, Maine - Maine Policy Review - Margaret Chase ... |
 | | Maine has led the nation in safeguarding beaches through the "Sand Dune Law" (now incorporated into the Natural Resource Protection Act, 38 M.S.R.A., sections 471-478), and in successfully resolving the Camp Ellis and Wells issues, which could once again take a leadership role in addressing the place of harbors in beach systems. |
 | | All later USACOE studies of beach erosion at the mouth of the Saco River (1920, 1939, 1955, 1961, 1969, 1976, 1987) denied a harmful influence of the jetty on the adjacent eroding beach, and invoked storms as the cause of that problem. |
 | | For example, the army’s failure to consider the Saco River as the source of sand to the bay’s beaches could be ascribed to a general lack of understanding of coastal processes in the 1800s—if such a misunderstanding did not persist in 1994. |
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