It's 2016 and the weight of American corporate interests has come to the Missouri River, the Mother River. This time, instead of the Seventh Cavalry or the Indian police dispatched to assassinate Sitting Bull, it is Enbridge and Dakota Access Pipeline.
In mid-August, Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II was arrested by state police, along with 27 others, for opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the meantime, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple called for more police support
The Groins are hard structures and used to maintain uplift beaches as to restrict longshore sediment transportation form tasking place. Are meant to capture sand transportation by the currents.
While the jetty is another type of shore perpendicular structure that is placed adjacent to the tidal inlets and controls the inlet migration. Both of them are used to destabilize coastal systems and disrupt the natural sediment regimes.
