While many of Maine's state's beaches are lined with houses and roads, one stretch of sand, and an adjacent beach park, could reveal how beaches and dunes behave with limited human intervention.
While many of the state's beaches are lined with houses and roads, some places in Sagadahoc County could reveal how beaches and dunes behave with limited human intervention.
Before Walt Dunlap moved in 2011 to the shores of Maquoit Bay, just south of Brunswick, he did his homework. A licensed land surveyor, Dunlap knew the steep banks sloping down to the ocean were unstable and prone to erosion. The house stood just 30.