Morning Beachgoers

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Recreation is a major attraction of coastlines, with its own infrastructure and pollution problems. Large hotels and resort complexes are built, replacing the dunes and mangroves which protected the shore, pollution from these populations fouls the water, poisons the ocean life, and promotes algae blooms. Roads and parking lots are built replacing the impermeable earth with asphalt and concrete, and allowing toxic runoff.