Lee tests South Shore community's new sea wall
Lee tests Marshfield’s new sea wall as storm impacts coastal Massachusetts
Updated: 6:34 AM EDT Sep 16, 2023
FOR US THIS MORNING. DAVID, HOW IS IT IN MARSHFIELD? WELL, JEN, RIGHT NOW, A BIT OF A LULL FOR THE RAIN. JUST KIND OF A LIGHT RAIN FALLING HERE IN MARSHFIELD ALONG OCEAN STREET. AND AS I STEP OUT OF THE WAY, YOU CAN SEE NOW, NOW THAT THE SUN IS ABOUT TO COME UP, WE CAN SEE SOME OF THE ROUGH SURF OUT OF THERE. WE KNOW THAT THE WIND IS COMING OUT OF THE NORTH BECAUSE YOU SEE THE TOPS OF THOSE WAVES, THE WAVE CRESTS, THE WIND COMES OUT OF THE NORTH AND IT JUST WHIPS THEM OFF TO THE RIGHT. WE ALSO SEE SOME SEABIRDS AT TIME TO TIME FLYING DIRECTLY FROM RIGHT TO LEFT. SO WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE FLYING INTO THE WIND. THERE WAS SOME SPLASH OVER HERE ON OCEAN STREET DURING HIGH TIDE OVERNIGHT, AND WE’RE EXPECTING THAT AGAIN AROUND MIDDAY TODAY. BUT RIGHT NOW, THOUGH, THE WAVES, THE BEGINNING OF THE WAVES AREN’T EVEN REALLY REACHING THE BASE OF THE SEAWALL HERE. THIS SEAWALL WAS JUST RECENTLY REBUILT. IT WAS COMPLETED LAST YEAR AFTER NEARLY FIVE YEARS OF REPAIRS. BACK IN 2018. THEY HAD IT SEVERELY DAMAGED BY A SERIES OF STORMS BACK THEN. THIS WILL BE ONE OF ITS FIRST TESTS. NOT ONLY IS IT ABOUT 3 OR 4FT HIGHER, BUT IT IS ALSO CURVED, DESIGNED TO THROW SOME OF THE WAVES THAT HIT IT BACK OUT TO
Lee tests Marshfield’s new sea wall as storm impacts coastal Massachusetts
Updated: 6:34 AM EDT Sep 16, 2023
High surf whipped up by Lee, now a post-tropical cyclone, is testing a new sea wall built to protect parts of a South Shore Massachusetts community from damaging storm surge flooding. The wall in Marshfield was completed last year after nearly 5 years of repairs. This wall is several feet higher than the old wall and curved to throw some of the wave energy back out to sea.Wary residents have watched the wall carefully for years, especially after the failure of the sea walls in Marshfield and neighboring Duxbury during a nor’easter in 2018. Police in Marshfield urged residents to stay home as the storm moves past and the National Guard established a staging area at the police department, in case they’re needed.”We hope we don’t need them, but having a high-water rescue vehicle, we’ve used it in the past and better to have and not need than need and not have,” said Lt. Arthur Shaw of the Marshfield Polic Department. Deployment of the National Guard was made possible by Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration of a state of emergency ahead of the storm.
High surf whipped up by Lee, now a post-tropical cyclone, is testing a new sea wall built to protect parts of a South Shore Massachusetts community from damaging storm surge flooding.
The wall in Marshfield was completed last year after nearly 5 years of repairs. This wall is several feet higher than the old wall and curved to throw some of the wave energy back out to sea.
Wary residents have watched the wall carefully for years, especially after the failure of the sea walls in Marshfield and neighboring Duxbury during a nor’easter in 2018.
Police in Marshfield urged residents to stay home as the storm moves past and the National Guard established a staging area at the police department, in case they’re needed.
“We hope we don’t need them, but having a high-water rescue vehicle, we’ve used it in the past and better to have and not need than need and not have,” said Lt. Arthur Shaw of the Marshfield Polic Department.
Deployment of the National Guard was made possible by Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration of a state of emergency ahead of the storm.
