Figure 13. Panorama of engineered, stabilized slope contrasted with naturally eroding and slumping bluff along north shore of Rockland Harbor. View is to the northwest. Property of the Littlefield Memorial Baptist Church, at the west end of Waldo Avenue (Figure 1), was engineered in 1978-1979 to prevent slumping along the shore. The bluff face was modified to make a more gradual slope, and rip-rap was placed at the base of the slope to reduce wave erosion. Cost of this project was approximately $25,000 (personal communication, 11/1/96, Eliot Gamadge of Rockland). The adjacent area to the right is undergoing natural erosion and slumping at a smaller scale than the 1996 landslide along Samoset Road. Note person in front of steep bluff on right for scale. Photography by Daniel Locke (MGS), May 1996.

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