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At a Cape Cod Landmark, a Strategic Retreat From the Ocean - The New York Times Page 1 of 4
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At a Cape Cod Landmark, a Strategic
Retreat From the Ocean
By JESS BIDGOOD JULY 6,2016
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — It is a simple pleasure in a classic summertime locale:
Pull a car between the stripes on the parking lot here, a ribbon of asphalt parallel to
the water atop a sloped wall in the sand, and look right out over the beach, where
one can see Cape Cod Bay meeting the Atlantic Ocean.
Here amid the unearthly dunes. Herring Cove Beach — and especially its north
parking lot — draws locals from just down the road and travelers from hundreds of
miles away, who might arrive in camper vans studded with American flags. Some
come for a quick swim, others to watch the sublime sunsets, famous in New England
because the beach faces west, not east.
But there is a problem, evident in the chunks of asphalt lying on the sand and
the deep fissures in the lot, parts of which are so damaged that they are off limits to
parking: The beach is eroding, and parts of this beloved spot, built in front of the
dunes, not behind them, are slowly crumbling into the ocean.
"It's a nightmare," said Mary-Jo Avellar, 70, the town moderator and a pastry
chef, who was sitting on the sand with a crossword puzzle on a recent sunny
afternoon, gesturing to several feet of exposed revetment between the flat surface of
the parking lot and the sand below. "This beach used to be pretty flat. It's been
scoured out."
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