Maccaferri’s coastal structures are designed, produced, and installed to stand against the forces of Mother Nature. This was apparent after Super Storm Sandy hit the Northeastern United States in October 2012. Maccaferri’s existing coastal structures protected homes and natural shorelines from storm surge damage and erosion.
Links are provided here to fuller stories on each project, one of which involves revisiting how a 2010 installation held up to Sandy.
STATEN ISLAND, NY
A gabion retaining wall was installed on a property along the beach in Staten Island, NY in 2010 to protect against storm surges. Because the gabion wall performed so well during Super Storm Sandy, the homeowner decided to add to the existing wall during storm clean up. The original wall protected the foundation of the home from the storm’s surges and debris. The adjacent homeowner has now decided to have a gabion wall installed on their property as well, after seeing how well the original gabion wall performed.
The front of the existing gabion wall was added to, widening its footprint so the wall’s overall height could be increased from 9 to 12 ft. It was during this time that the wall was also extended in length to shield and protect the adjacent property. Read more…
QUOGUE, NY
During a Nor’easter in 2010, heavy surf and high winds devastated the dune system protecting beach front homes near the Hampton’s, on twin forks of Long Island, NY. With the dunes gone, there was nothing left to protect the beachfront properties from further storms.
Maccaferri MacTubes® and a single MacScour apron were installed and covered with sand. Later, the area was vegetated with native plants and a dune fence was put in place.
Post Super Storm Sandy, preliminary field observations of conditions showed the MacTube® structure maintained its structural integrity and design characteristics with negligible sand losses from within the bag and limited damage to the tubes due to debris. Some sediment/land losses behind the MacTube® structure was observed, due to overtopping of crest height from the storm surge. However, visual inspection of the adjacent beaches to the north and south showed an average of 30 ft. of additional landward recession in areas where no tube structure was in place. Read more…
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