Posted on January 11, 2022
For more than three decades, South Carolina law has prohibited property owners from building new sea walls on the beaches of our barrier islands. It’s also restricted the use of sandbags to approaching hurricanes and similar emergencies.
The law is part of a well-known, and well-litigated, strategy to project and preserve our white sandy beaches, which belong to the public and fuel our tourism economy. Although sea walls and sandbags protect the buildings and property immediately behind them, they also speed erosion in front of and alongside them — thus quite literally stealing the beach from all South Carolinians.
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