What happens when the sea takes your land?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/16/plum_island_woman_wants_to_rebuild_on_beach?mode=PF


Bid to rebuild Plum Island home faces opposition
By Taryn Plumb
Globe Correspondent / January 16, 2010
NEWBURY - A few tentative nudges from the curled arm of a bulldozer, and that was it. The white two-story beach cottage keeled forward and crumbled with a puff of dust like an exhausted gasp.
That was in November 2008, when 80-year-old grandmother Geri Buzzotta lost 45 years worth of memories, photographs, and valuables, her longtime Newbury house a casualty of the churning Atlantic that is voraciously gnawing away at Plum Island.

Now, remarkably, Buzzotta is hoping to rebuild on that very same tiny lot overlooking the tempestuous ocean.

But she faces opposition - a group of her neighbors, along with the state Department of Environmental Protection, are debating the proposed project out of concern for Plum Island’s eroding dunes.