Discussion
The commonest reason a coastal structure fails to achieve its objective is that
Answer: C
Correct answer: it was aimed at the wrong cause of the problem
A structure that is well designed, well built and in the right place will still fail to achieve anything if it addresses a process that is not the one causing the erosion - groynes on a frontage losing sediment offshore, or a detached breakwater where the loss is a drift deficit. Diagnosis of the sediment budget and the wave climate therefore precedes the choice of structure, and it is the step most often skipped.
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