Printed from: https://conservationhandbooks.com/waterways-wetlands/banks-revetments-and-access/wave-barriers/
Wave barriers, unlike bank reinforcements, are not built into the bank, but lie slightly out from the shoreline to form a breakwater. Wave barriers may be used for the following reasons: Substituting bank reinforcement, to protect exposed shorelines or newly-created islands and promontories. Protecting new plantings of emergent vegetation. Providing a substitute for emergent vegetation...