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A Luxury House Is Close to Tumbling into Cape Cod Bay
- bell-cot 2y ago> The house was built in 2010 on Cape Cod ... > Its original owners ... sought permission from the commission in 2018 to build a 241-foot-wide seawall to stave off erosion. The commission’s seven members — all volunteers — rejected the seawall ... They also questioned whether it would actually save the house. > The property is within Cape Cod National Seashore... > ...Bryan McCormack, a ... specialist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant, estimates that the bluffs are eroding at a rate of 3.8 to 5.6 feet a year. The report estimated collapse in up to three years, but likely sooner. And the house is full of fiberglass insulation. Vs. the local waters are full of commercial oyster beds. The market price for oysters with bits of fiberglass in 'em, after the house falls into the water ...yeah. Shouldn't the law have said, back in 2010, "no, you can't build an obviously-gonna-collapse-onto-bystanders structure, even with your own money"?