MAINE PUBLIC • May 16, 2025
Residents of Saco’s Camp Ellis neighborhood are hoping they may finally get relief from severe coastal erosion that has plagued them for generations. $23 million in the federal budget will pay for construction of a 750-foot stone jetty spur intended to reduce wave force and sand loss. Shoreline damage is blamed on a nearby Saco River jetty expanded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s.