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Plum Island aid urged

Lack of dredging, jetty repair cited

By Taryn Plumb
Globe Correspondent / March 23, 2008

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Slowly, day by day, the roiling Atlantic eats away at Plum Island. At its center, a beach that was once 200 feet wide has narrowed to 70 feet. (Full article: 821 words)

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