Residents concerned after landowner builds large seawall at popular South Shore beach
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Landowners in Lunenburg County are raising concerns about a seawall built along the shoreline of Little Crescent Beach near West Dublin, N.S.
The small beach is popular among locals. It sits at the end of Crescent Beach, a long stretch where people have been able to pull their vehicles up and enjoy their day next to the ocean for decades.
But some of the landscape has changed.
"It seems there has been some reconstruction of the natural habitat with the removal of grasslands and trees," said Lucy Hendrixson, who grew up in the area.
"There has been a big outcry on how this is being done. Why are there no protections in place?"
The 130-metre wall was built by Hossein Mousavi, a Halifax developer, who owns property by the beach.
He plans to build three cottages for his family to use.
He said a large sand hill and some mature trees and grasses were removed to make room for the wall, but the sand will be reused to "sculpt, replant and otherwise restore the site to a natural form."
But landowners are also questioning whether the private wall was built on public land.
Mousavi said that's not the case. In Nova Scotia, beaches are public lands up to the high-water mark.
He said the property came with two old protective stone seawalls that had been damaged by years of storms.
A licensed surveyor proposed placing the new seawall on top of the existing ones at the high-water mark, he said.
Mousavi, who owns construction company, Cresco, said he was given permission from the province to do the work, with some restrictions.
Dozens of trucks were carrying loads of fill into the area Friday morning. Hendrixson said there is a salt water tidal wetland behind the seawall.
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