Understanding Factors that Impacts Beaches Health

RESEARCH PAPER: BEACHES
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July 13, 2021
RESEARCH PAPER: BEACHES
The first step toward the betterment of the health of our beaches is to gain a better understanding of the factors that negatively impact them. Pollution, human meddling, and the effects of climate change can all harm the delicate coastal habitat, which supports the diversity of plants and animals. Beaches can be transformed or destroyed if we do not adequately safeguard them and learn to enjoy them while without causing harm to them (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2021).
Because of the pollution of coastal habitats, we cannot use beaches for commercial, recreational, or aesthetically pleasing purposes. Pollution undermines and destroys the one-of-a-kind beach habitat that animals and plants require. A polluted beach poses a threat to public health, has the potential to lower property values, and can stifle economic development in the surrounding area (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2021).
Gornitz (2013), in her writings entitled, Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future, studies past climate archives to better predict and prepare for future events. Among the incidents she discusses are the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Anomaly (which may have inspired Noah's flood), the Messinian salinity crisis, and the Storage undersea slide (which may have been linked to an 8,000-year-old sea level occurrence). According to Gornitz (2013), rapid human-induced warming might have dire effects on sea level and climate. In addition, she cites historical precedent for increased damage from storm surge flooding, even if storm parameters remain unchanged.
Finally, Gornitz (2013) delineates the challenging economic and political choices of cutting carbon emissions while highlighting the urgent necessity to do so through previous geological studies.
In the seemingly limitless extent of the ocean, the ancient sages envisioned a state of primeval formlessness out of which all life emerged. While the ancients had no concrete evidence for their intuitive insights, we now know from the geological record of sedimentary rocks that oceans have existed on Earth for at least 3.8 billion years, possibly more. Life has been present on Earth for almost as long. The first living cells most probably did originate in the ocean, although it has been debated whether this occurred in a shallow tidal pool or in the deep ocean at hydrothermal vents (Gornitz, 2013).
Aside from the concerns of the beaches Gornitz (2013) pointed out, there are still lots of problems our beached is suffering. Among them are Raritan River, Asbury Park and Point Pleasant beaches.
Along the costs of the United State, approximately 24 miles by water south and west of the Battery in New York City, the navigation asset, Raritan River, is located in north-central New Jersey. This asset includes: from the turn in the NY and NJ Channels near Great Beds Light to Raritan Arsenal Wharf, then 15 feet deep and 200 feet wide to the Washington Canal and then 10 to 11 ft deep in soft material and 100 feet wide with widening at bends to the Delaware and Raritan canal entrance at New Brunswick. In addition, the South Channel will be dredged to a depth of 10 feet and 150 feet wide over a length of 1,300 feet to the upper junction with the main channel at Crab Island (US Army Corps of Engineers, 2021).
A heavily urbanized estuary and coastal system with numerous freshwater sources, including the Hudson River and Raritan River, was studied for the first time by Rutgers scientists. Plastic fragments found in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary in NJ and NY suggest stormwater may be a significant source of plastic pollution in oceans, bays, rivers, and other bodies of water. In comparison to effluent from wastewater sewage treatment plants, stormwater contained equivalent or higher quantities of plastics, according to senior author Nicole Fahrenfeld, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. As a result, there is a need for more research on microplastics' impact on ecosystems (US Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2021). The increasing deposit of plastic pollutants, could add up in the higher sea level nowadays which is being pointed out by Gornitz (2013).
The Chesapeake Bay, the country's vastest estuary, is home to enormous salt marshes, an abundance of waterfowl, and sea life. Its rich waters have sustained generations of fishers, and they continue to provide excellent leisure options today. Around 9,000–8,000 years ago, the expanding sea began inundating the Chesapeake Bay, destroying the original Susquehanna River valley. Then, between 7,000 and 6,000 years ago, as the submergence slowed, the estuary gradually attained its contemporary shape. Few people know that the sea level is rising faster in the Chesapeake Bay than anywhere else on the Eastern of the United States Seacoast today. There, seawater is seeping higher (Gornitz, 2013).
From North Carolina to Florida, an eroding cliff known as the Orangeburg scarp runs through many of the southeastern United States' Atlantic Coa...