By Ted Hayes

A study into Westport’s ocean-facing barrier beaches that began after a series of harsh winter storms over the past few years has yet to be completed, but a preliminary version just released suggests a host of initiatives, some of them estimated to cost millions, to help make beaches along Atlantic Avenue, Beach Avenue and East Beach Road more resilient to the impacts of coastal storms.

The town’s “Barrier Beach Management Plan” study is headed by the Woods Hole Group and was launched to try to find short and long term solutions to the cobbling, erosion and destruction wrought along low-lying areas during coastal storms, including a series that hit from late 2023 and early 2024. Several of those storms decimated East Beach Road.

Currently in its draft form, the study is exp

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