A groyne (in the U.S. groin) is a rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from an ocean shore (in coastal engineering) or a river bank, interrupting...

also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest...

Joanne. "South Shields' Herd Groyne lighthouse is shipshape after facelift". The Journal. Retrieved 11 December 2018. "Herd Groyne Lighthouse, River Tyne"...

"headland breakwater", "headland groyne", "bulkhead groyne" or "bulkhead breakwater". Use of groynes and headland groyne, accumulates the sand across the...

of sediment sources. The intervention of humans, e.g. cliff protection, groynes, detached breakwaters. The sediment budget takes into consideration sediment...

Bincleaves Groyne is a breakwater located off the southern area of Weymouth, England. It is the second largest of four breakwaters which create Portland...

because of the beach enhancement. Groyne construction creates a problem known as terminal groyne syndrome. The terminal groyne prevents longshore drift from...

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was attempted by installing tetrapods along the groyne bases or by putting them into the sea like groynes. The four-armed structures, built in France and...

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rock groyne and continues to the southwest for 550 metres past a seawall and a small tidal pool to a western deviation in the sandy shore at a groyne in...

forest' and can be seen at Dove Point, Meols, between the slipway and the groyne. The park, which has been granted triple-SI (Site of Special Scientific...

Street groyne to create beachlets can be readily observed. Northwards sand drift from Holloway Bend and Dendy Street Beach is captured by the groyne at Middle...

called 'groynes' in some places. Examples include Long Beach in New York, The Wedge in California, and Duranbah Groyne in Australia. Jetty and groyne style...

Elizabeth Park (QEP) reclamation area and extends to the northern Tausoa Beach Groyne and the Catalina Ramp Harbour. The reefs at Funafuti suffered damage during...

beach suffers from significant erosion of the sand so there are distinctive groyne or walls, to help keep the sand in place. The beach is popular with walkers...

of beach material. In this usage they are more usually referred to as groynes. Breakwaters reduce the intensity of wave action in inshore waters and...

southern extremity is a groyne and continues north past a drain pipe until Hale Road dog beach. In front of the beach area near the groyne there is a carpark...

dictionary. For Groin see: Groin (human body) Groin attack (technique) Groyne (sea wall or river training structure) Groin vault, a type of vaulted chamber...

Promenade Beach has disappeared entirely. As a result of the city's seawall and groyne construction, the beaches further up the coast to the north have also been...

for submarines after the lagoon drained shortly after Clinton's visit. Groyne jetties at the pond have been accused of causing beach erosion in Southampton...

to land there are stony patches. Just below Le Hocq Tower, west of the groyne of boulders, is a more pleasant sandy beach, which stretches round the headland...

may have been influenced by the presence or absence of erosion limiting groynes or a pier. South, at Hornsea Burton, erosion rates rose from 1.3 to 5 yards...

coastal road. In May 1972, the Government of Queensland built a groyne, now called "big groyne", extending Kirra Point, to trap sand on Coolangatta beach to...

the Southern Provincial Council built a groyne system to protect the bridge from the wave attack. Another groyne was built in 2005 to control the erosion...

Riegelmann Boardwalk in 1922–1923, and is held in place by around two dozen groynes. A large sand-replenishing project along Coney Island and Brighton Beach...

more permanent solution than soft-erosion control methods. Seawalls and groynes serve as semi-permanent infrastructure. These structures are not immune...

of the foundation of the buildings, forcing construction of a protective groyne. The school matriculate 300 students for 2021/2022 academics section. Students...

from erosion. Such structures include seawalls, gabions, breakwaters, groynes and tetrapods. Hard engineering can cause unintended environmental consequences...

11–13th century AD. Thereafter, canals were dug, bends were straightened and groynes were built to prevent the river's channels from migrating or silting up...