Talk:Seawall

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Rock apron
what is a rock apron? there is no article on this therefore I think that a small explanation may be needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.132.92 (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Difference
Can anybody explain the difference between a Sea wall and a breakwater? --Feministo (talk) 17:07, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

As I understand it, a seawall is built onshore, where a breakwater may be built offshore, and may be connected to shore. Karanne (talk) 21:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Encyclopedic?
The last section of this article, "Advanced Numerical Study," sounds like somebody plugging their own original research (literally). As a CFD professional (20+ years in the trade at university research centers, government labs, software vendors, and industry), it doesn't even sound all that "advanced" - I was doing similar stuff 10 years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.61.141 (talk) 14:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Good point! it serves no function in the article. There are some other major issues with the article, hence my efforts at re-shaping it from the top down Anglian Type Site (talk) 22:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

History??
A 'History' section should surely be that of seawalls in general? not a 'Case History' of a particular event!!!....It needs removing and a history of seawalls provided, maybe with reference to certain exemplary locations from which the nature and uses of seawalls can be highlighted. Also, could Nsaum75 please give a reason for twice replacing an external reference to the head of the article, when similar examples of seawalls are confined to a list at the foot of the article...what makes this geographic reference so specialthat it precedes all else? Cheers! DS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anglian Type Site (talk • contribs) 12:32, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Protects in note 2?!
17 nov edit added text in note 2. Should be placed after the ref as a whole; also, better in the text itself? Please have a closer look.Super48paul (talk) 10:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Image Caption
"An example of a modern seawall in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight (Discarded barrels not part of wall)" This caption is incorrect. The 'discarded barrels' in the image are actually Tetrapods 144.124.209.86 (talk) 13:07, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * . μc8 (talk) 13:53, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Jersey Shore
New Jersey Southern Railroad built a 2,000-foot trestle and a seawall on the ocean side of the narrow peninsula town of Sea Bright, New Jersey in the 1870s, and rebuilt it again in 1881. The state built a new seawall starting in 1946 into the 1950s. By the late 1980s, the seawall had seriously deteriorated and repairs were undertaken in 1990.

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Orgasm?
Unless the word 'orgasm' has a dual meaning in the context of coastal erosion I propose that it be removed from the introduction of this article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.12.47.57 (talk) 15:38, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Ecosystem Issues
I am planning on adding a short Ecosystem Issues sub-section to the "Issues" sectionBiostudent2 (talk) 19:14, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Guyana
Guyana would make an excellent addition to the example section! Most of the country's economic/urban areas lie on a coastal plain that are protected by a sea wall made when it was a Dutch colony. There's already related articles Sea Wall, Guyana and Hope Canal. Including Guyana also helps improve global balance to this article, too. I'd be happy to add the section myself, but I feel like the tone of this article is better for someone with a stronger engineering knowledgebase. Cheers, Estheim (talk) 11:25, 12 December 2020 (UTC)