There Once Was A Coastal Resiliency Project On Nantucket . . . A Cautionary Tale.

Yesterday the Sconset Beach Preservation Fund announced it would comply with a Nantucket Conservation Commission enforcement order and remove a "soft" coastal bank stabilization project it had constructed on the eastern bluff of the island.

Everyone agrees that the bank stabilization project paid for by neighborhood property owners is the only thing keeping their homes, a public street to the Sankaty Head Lighthouse, and various public utilities from tumbling into the Atlantic Ocean.

On the one hand, the decision to concede defeat in a decade long battle with the Conservation Commission isn't surprising. A Massachusetts Superior Court Judge upheld the Commission's order and the Judge's decision to do so wasn't going to be reversed by the Appeals Court. For more on that, see my September post at https://insights.mintz.com/post/102hwdx/dramatic-shoreline-realignment-in-store-for-nantuckets-eastern-shore-as-bitter.