A new plan would build a temporary buffer between at-risk homes and nature-driven erosion, heightened by storm surges and changing tides along the beachfront.

Located within the Charleston Harbor, northwest of Cummings Point and southeast of Shutes Folly Island, the beach formed as sand and sediment collected over time. Now, the sandbar connects ...

The South Carolina ... the dunes all the way off shore, 3000 feet, to basically get a sense of what is happening on our beaches over time,” Boynton says. “What’s happening with our sand ...