41. Rocks were then placed in a v-shape formation to try to prevent erosion, much like the groyne . 42. The villages are seeking to address various beach issues including erosion arising from groynes at Georgica Pond in East Hampton village. 43. The sea front is protected by a sea wall and a wide beach encouraged by wooden groynes which trap the sand. 44. They are only being preserved by groynes , persistent sandpumping and two road dams along their inward ( eastern ) side. 45. Beach material does not get washed away because of these groynes but can cause damage to other parts of the coast. 46. In 1964 a series of timber groynes and a cliff drainage system was installed along 300m of the sea-front. 47. The beach's southern extremity is a groyne and continues north past a drain pipe until Hale Road dog beach. 48. In 1665 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, bought the a large storm damaged a groyne which blocked the entrance entirely. 49. The area's seafront is pedestrianised and the beach itself is a mixture of shingle and pebble, reinforced by groynes . 50. Efforts to prevent erosion with groynes have just pushed the problems further west resulting in serious beach erosion problems on Fire Island.
