Barrington Shoreline Access Walking Tour

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DATE: September 17, 2024
TIME: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
PLACE: Barrington, RI

Sea level rise and erosion are making beaches and coastlines more narrow, and that may make shoreline access in some places around Rhode Island more challenging in the years to come.

Join us on this shoreline access walk in Barrington and learn how a Rhode Island Sea Grant-funded research team with specialties in GIS mapping, natural resource economics, coastal geology, and law have been studying this issue in the East Bay and what they have found. Faculty and staff from the University of Rhode Island, the Coastal Resources Management Council, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the town of Barrington will be on hand to answer your shoreline access questions.

Discussion topics:

• Climate change and implications for public access
• Shoreline access improvements in the town of Barrington
• How CRMC is interpreting and enforcing RI’s new shoreline access legislation
• Legal challenges to the shoreline access law and what's to come

This event is free but registration is required. Details for where to meet will be emailed to you after you register. If you have questions, please contact Monica Allard Cox at allard@uri.edu.

NOTE: The rain date for this walk is Thursday, September 19. Registered participants will be alerted if the date is postponed due to weather.

This walking tour is sponsored by CRMC, Rhode Island Sea Grant, and the URI Coastal Institute.

For more information and resources on shoreline public access, visit www.crmc.ri.gov/publicaccess.html. For a guide to selected Rhode Island shoreline access sites, visit shoreline-ri.com.