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    A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defense constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of...
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    The Galveston Seawall is a seawall in Galveston, Texas, that was built after the Galveston hurricane of 1900 for protection from future hurricanes. Construction...
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    The Saemangeum Seawall (Korean: 새만금 방조제), on the south-west coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring 33 kilometres...
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    The seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a stone wall that was constructed around the perimeter of Stanley Park to prevent erosion of the...
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    Seawall Boulevard is a major road in Galveston, Texas in the United States. The boulevard is conterminous with Farm to Market Road 3005 south of 61st...
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    The Alaskan Way Seawall is a seawall which runs for approximately 7,166 feet (2,184 m) along the Elliott Bay waterfront southwest of downtown Seattle from...
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  • The Georgetown Seawall Bandstand is an iron bandstand that is situated on the western end of Georgetown Seawall in Guyana. It is one of three bandstands...
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    It was constructed on reclaimed land along a three mile long engineered seawall, from which piers extend into the bay. It derives its name from the Spanish...
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    Hangzhou Seawall Ruins Museum (Chinese: 杭州海塘遗址博物馆) is an archeological site museum of seawalls located in Hangzhou, China. It is also the first seawall museum...
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    against the sea by a 2-km-long seawall that sits at a height of 8.5 m above sea level. Whilst there was an early seawall made by the French government...
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    The Sea Bright–Monmouth Beach Seawall is a seawall located along the Jersey Shore in the Monmouth County, New Jersey towns of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach...
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    Seawall Campground is a campground in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine. The campground offers four loops of campsites...
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    South Korea. It was dammed by the government of South Korea's Saemangeum Seawall Project, completed in 2006, after a long fight between the government and...
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    Seawall Grill is a restaurant in Galveston, Texas. The family-owned restaurant Miller's Seawall Grill operates in a yellow Victorian house on Seawall...
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    The East Shore Seawall, also known as Staten Island Multi-Use Elevated Promenade, is a 5.2-mile (8.4 km) long combined seawall and esplanade proposed...
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    Bulkhead (barrier) (category Seawalls)
    mines to contain flooding. Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. These manmade structures are constructed...
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    San Francisco, launched the San Francisco Seawall Earthquake Safety and Disaster Prevention Program (Seawall Program). The first landing place on the north-eastern...
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    and its profound impacts have prompted the discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around the shorelines of the city and the metropolitan...
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  • Project. The Gold Coast seawall in Australia is contained within the Gold Coast's shoreline management plan. The original seawall was laid out following...
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    The Yuri Coast Seawall (由利海岸波除石垣, Yuri kaigan namiyoke ishigaki) is an Edo period seawall against high waves, salt spray, and strong winds on the Sea of...
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    descriptions of redirect targets Riprap – Rock or concrete protective armour Seawall – Form of coastal defence Spătaru, A (1990). "Breakwaters for the Protection...
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    Mangrove planting and other habitat conservation can reduce coastal flooding. Seawalls to protect against storm surge worsened by sea level rise Green roofs to...
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    The Sea Wall is a 280-mile seawall that runs along much of Guyana's coastline, including all of the coastline in the capital city of Georgetown. It protects...
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    30,000. Four thousand workmen also built a 1,400 meters (0.9 mi) long seawall to block the seaward access between the city and harbor, stopping all supplies...
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    The Battery is a landmark defensive seawall and promenade in Charleston, South Carolina. Named for a pre-Civil War coastal defense artillery battery originally...
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  • Raphael that some mutants associated with the anemones plan to destroy the seawall and flood New York City. Three new mutants arrive, and the anemones explain...
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    is lined by a concrete seawall, built in 1988 to protect a promenade and the weak chalky cliff-face from erosion. The seawall comprises a set of steps...
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    the road and its interchanges, and 14.5 hectares (0.145 km2) to build a seawall. The remaining 70 hectares (0.70 km2) or about 63.6% of the total reclaimed...
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    States built on a pier stretching 600 feet (183 m) from the Galveston Seawall over the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. For decades a dance hall and illegal...
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    the parts not eroded by the waves, lies under the houses lining the new seawall. The Gymnasium and the Palaestra are both inland, near the Boulevard de...
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