State officials let waterfront homeowners damage public beaches repeatedly.
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Paradise Lost: Officials let Hawaii’s waterfront homeowners damage public beaches again and again
Everybody knows that seawalls cause beach loss, and Hawaii law forbids building them. But Honolulu County officials have granted exemptions to 46 homeowners over the past two decades even as a quarter of Oahu’s beaches have disappeared.
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