Some areas of Illinois’ Lake Michigan shoreline are losing up to one hundred feet of shoreline per year. Others are so poorly protected from high water that entire neighborhoods are flooding. Meanwhile, some dumpsites along the lakefront pose nasty pollution hazards.
These are just some of the problems erosion poses. But how does erosion work? And how can we stop — or at least slow — it?
Reset digs deeper.
GUESTS: Joel Brammeier, president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes
Maxwell Evans, reporter for Block Club Chicago
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