<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">CZM Releases Fact Sheets to Help Coastal Property Owners Reduce Erosion and Storm Damage</b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> - In December, CZM launched the </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">StormSmart Properties website</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> with fact sheets for coastal property owners on shoreline stabilization options that effectively reduce erosion and storm damage while minimizing impacts to shoreline systems. The six techniques covered in this first round of fact sheets are: </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/fs-1-dunes.html" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">artificial dunes and dune nourishment</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/fs-2-runoff.html" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">controlling overland runoff to reduce coastal erosion</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/fs-3-vegetation.html" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">planting vegetation to reduce erosion and storm damage</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/fs-4-coir-rolls.html" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">bioengineering/coir rolls on coastal banks</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/fs-5-fiber-blankets.html" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">bioengineering/natural fiber blankets on coastal banks</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">, and </span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/stormsmart-properties/fs-6-fencing.html" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">sand fencing</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">. In the coming year, CZM will add additional fact sheets on topics such as repair/reconstruction of revetments, seawalls, and groins; beach nourishment; elevating and relocating buildings; sand-filled envelopes; salt marsh creation and restoration on coastal beaches; and design standards for new revetments, seawalls, and groins. CZM would like to thank the staff from sister EEA agencies who provided input and assistance, as well as the StormSmart Properties Technical Advisory Committee coastal geologists, coastal engineers, and other environmental consultants with extensive local experience with these techniques who thoroughly reviewed each fact sheet.</span><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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