Beach renuirishment
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Tim
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What a waste of taxpayers money.
County, State and federal $'s just being pissed away year after year after year after year......................
8-30 million per shot for our county alone. Then the inlet fills with sand and that needs to be dredged every 3 years to the tune of 8-12 million each time.
25 years ago Martin county had the opportunity to put a permanent sand dredge pump in the inlet (just like Palm Beach inlet) and re stock our beaches on a maint. basis for the price of $21 million, but NOOOOOO that was too much money. Now we have spent over $220 million in this 24 year period.
Beaches come and go, I say let the houses and condos fall into the Atlantic and become beautiful reefs.
I remember going to Sunday school and singing some song about the foolish man building his house upon the sand.
Here is a live video and pics of my local beach getting its sand for the 3rd time in 8 years a the tune of 8.25 million and TRY to get it done before turtle and hurricane season.
The fishing will be fucked up and down our county beaches for 6 months.
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: I rang a silent bell
That does seem like a huge
That does seem like a huge waste of money. Nature always wins, foolish men.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
beach erosion is really bad
beach erosion is really bad by me. we've lost a ton of sand.
if it never rains much and you've stopped sediment flow from creeks....nothing gets put back.
once sandy beach is now very rocky in 2/3 rd's of town.
the main train tracks round the bend and are literally feet from the ocean. there's a cliff w/ houses above...not sure what the plan is...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Only going to get worse over
Only going to get worse over time with rising sea levels. Growing up in coastal Florida, we would watch in amazement all the homes going up on exposed sandy spits knowing that one day, the Atlantic would come in and swallow them up. They did with Matthew in 2016 and many of the ones that survived that were taken by Irene last year.
There should be limits with federal flood insurance in that once you lose your house twice, you are on your own after that.