Returning to nature to protect shorelines
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A living shoreline, built in Patchogue in September on land that flooded during Sandy, replaced 1,300 feet of rotting bulkhead with marshland and rocks. NewsdayTV's Steve Langford reports. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost