A breachway is defined as the shore along a channel. Today the term is used to describe the whole area around where a channel meets the ocean. The Rhode Island coastline has many breachways on its map. Today's permanent breachways have rock jetties that line the sides of the channel to protect against erosion or closing of the waterway. The water channels usually lead to salt water ponds.
Coastal management
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Management |
- Coastal management
- Accretion
- Coastal engineering
- Integrated coastal zone management
- Managed retreat
- Submersion
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Hard engineering |
- A-jack
- Accropode
- Akmon
- Artificial reef
- Breachway
- Breakwater
- Cliff stabilization
- Dolos
- Flood wall
- Floodgate
- Gabion
- Groyne
- Levee
- Hard engineering
- Honeycomb sea wall
- Hudson's equation
- KOLOS
- Revetment
- Riprap
- Seawall
- Tetrapod
- Training wall
- Xbloc
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Soft engineering |
- Beach nourishment
- Beach drainage
- Sand dune stabilization
- Soft engineering
- Soft shore remediation
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Related topics |
- Beach evolution
- Coastal erosion
- Land reclamation
- Longshore transport
- Modern recession of beaches
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