You have just bought your dream home along a coastline,but you notice that the beach in front of your new house is slowly disappearing.You decide to solve this by building a groin.Winds blow predominantly from east to west.Where do you place your groin?

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In order to build a groin to prevent beach erosion, it should be perpendicular to the shore and placed on the side where the winds blow from. Since the winds blow predominantly from east to west, the groin should be placed west of the house to trap sand and prevent erosion on the beach in front of the house. Placing it directly in front of the house or parallel to the shoreline will not effectively trap sand and prevent erosion. Placing it to the east of the house will actually further exacerbate the erosion problem on the beach in front of the house.

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