Editor’s note: The author is responding to a recent Tampa Bay Times editorial, “One practical way for Florida to prepare for sea-level rise,” that argued that too many seawalls are already ...

In a 1981 technical note, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognized the problems with seawalls. The report states that seawalls protect only the land immediately behind them, offering no ...

MIRABAY — When they were awarded an $8.3 million settlement from contractors in 2013, some MiraBay residents thought they'd reached the end of a 10-year struggle to fix failing seawalls there.