* Public works like the Concord Point Lighthouse, Lincoln Tunnel and the St Augustine seawall

Although the visible buildings give an impression of an organic whole, it is certain that an unknown quantity of additional structures had already been lost to sea erosion before the site's rediscovery and subsequent protection by a seawall.

Canvey is consequently protected by modern sea defences comprising of concrete seawall.

This low elevation is protected by a retaining wall known as the seawall to keep the ocean out and an innovative network of canals with kokers to drain the city of excess water.

A seawall was constructed, which preserved the site where the remains of the original " James Fort " were to be discovered by archaeologists of the Jamestown Rediscovery project beginning in 1994, a century later.

The northern frontage of Sheringham is protected by a concrete seawall which also serves as the promenade.

Here as everywhere else, the Romans left their mark by constructing a castle with a seawall in front of it so that boats and ships could anchor in safety.

* By the 14th century, much of the Walland and Denge Marshes had been reclaimed by " innings ", the process of throwing up an embankment around the sea-marsh and using the low-tide to let it run dry by means of one-way drains set into the new seawall, running off into a network of dykes called locally " sewers "

" These indicate opposition to the concrete seawall proposed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the Point and neighboring 57th St. Beach.

The famous Old English riddle Ic wæs be Sonde describes a conch: " I was by sound, near seawall, at ocean-stream ; I dwelt alone in my first resting place.

A paved seawall path circles the park, which is used by 2. 5 million pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters every year.

Large sections of the seawall were also destabilized by the storm, and many areas of the park were closed to the public pending restoration.

In 1922 – 1923 a seawall and esplanade were constructed, funded by the Unemployment Grants Commission and built by unemployed residents.

A relation of Croppenburg's ; the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden present in England at the time of the project on a commission to drain the Fens and involved in repairing the seawall at Dagenham has led to speculation that Vermuyden oversaw the project, but proof appears to be vague, nevertheless the work was completed by around 300 Dutch skilled in the construction of dykes and other sea defences.

First seawall, built by Pompeo Targone, 1627.

Second seawall, designed by Clément Métezeau.

File: Sea monster cut in two by a seawall. jpg | Sea monster cut in two by the seawall, 1628.

Immediately to the south-west of Dawlish is a headland, Lea Mount, with Boat Cove at its foot and Coryton Cove, the furthest part of the beach accessible by the seawall path, behind it.

In 1920, the rock was found and the waterfront rebuilt to a design by noted landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff, with a waterfront promenade behind a low seawall, in such a way that when the rock was returned to its original site, it would be at water level.

Furthermore, the installation of a water system, construction of permanent dikes to contain river floods, a seawall and wharf as well as some bridges are some long-range development plans envisioned by the townspeople of Albuera to give them inestimable benefits.

Sand dredged from nearby waterways was pumped into the area within the seawall, and in time, the elevation of the eastern portion of the island was raised by as much as.

Police officers in Savannah reported that wave were topping the local seawall ; however, no damage was reported.

The many types of seawall in use today reflect both the varying physical forces they are designed to withstand, and location specific aspects, such as: local climate, coastal position, wave regime, and value of landform.

His platoon landed on the Easy Red sector, and made it to the seawall largely intact, unlike most in the first wave.

* Diagram and description of the geometry of the seawall to dissipate wave energy

Moah-Master is a giant humanoid golem who can communicate with the giant stone " Moai " to prevent a tidal wave using a seawall.

The riverside houses back directly on to the shore, with no continuous seawall, and the passageways between them to the beach are equipped with metal flood gates that are closed by residents when they are warned of high tides by a local alert network.

Also in 2011, A Construction crews have been building a long seawall at the Blaney Street landing, which runs from the edge of the ferry dock back toward Derby Street and along an inner harbor.

* February 21 – Australia experiences its first fatal airline accident since 1968 when an Advance Aviation Beechcraft King Air 200 suffers the failure of an engine shortly after takeoff from Sydney Airport in Mascot, Australia, due to water in the fuel tank and crashes into a seawall while trying to return to the airport.

* On November 7, 1978, the American Legion crashed into the concrete seawall near the Statue of Liberty ferry port during a dense fog.

In Seattle, the Alaskan Way Viaduct and its seawall were damaged, forcing the viaduct to close for emergency repairs and ultimately factoring into the decision to replace the viaduct entirely.

Immediately surrounding the fort was a moat which could be flooded to a depth of a foot during high-tide with seawater from Matanzas Bay prior to an attack via the use of floodgates built into the seawall.

Factors working against the further return of wildlife include residual industrial contaminants, spillage from the sewer overflow system into the creek, and the seawall that constrains much of the shoreline with little habitat value.

Liners docked at a long seawall wharf divided into Piers 20, 21, 22 and 23.

Parts of the parish of St Clement in the south were previously below sea-level but the construction of a seawall and infilling of low land has probably left only a few pockets of land below mean sea level.

When the case was lost,, a Royal Canadian Navy cruiser, escorted the Komagata Maru out to sea while thousands of Caucasians cheered from the seawall of Stanley Park.

A system of drainage reens and sluice gates together with a seawall which runs from the River Usk in the east to the Rhymney River in the west protect the area from the risk of coastal flooding as the land is still only a few metres above sea level.

A seawall ( also written as sea wall ) is a form of coastal defence constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.

As a seawall is a static feature it will conflict with the dynamic nature of the coast and impede the exchange of sediment between land and sea.

The city is protected against the sea by a 1. 25 mile ( 2-kilometre ) long seawall, first completed by the French in 1735, which reaches a height of 27 feet above sea level.

The Sanibel Lighthouse survived with little damage, and the Sanibel Causeway suffered relatively minor damage, save for a toll booth tilted partly over, and erosion of a small seawall.

In 1999, construction began on a large seawall to prevent the fort from further erosion.

The seawall was controversial because they tend to shift erosion to other parts of the beach, however it was completed in 2000 and it effectively stopped erosion in the area of the fort.

Image: fig10-large. jpg | Hard structures, such as the Galveston seawall, can increase erosion of adjacent beaches.

Image: Fort Delaware seawall erosion problem 2010. jpg | Erosion area southwest of seawall built by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The seawall is protected from the direct onslaught of waves by rows of granite boulders which are reinforced every year to stop erosion.