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With the breach at Cupsogue Beach County Park now closed, the giant dredging vessel Illinois being employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has now moved east to Shinnecock Inlet and begun dredging sand from the inlet and rebuilding severely eroded beaches in the area.
The three-week project, as initially designed by the Army Corps and funded by the federal and state governments, will dredge some 250,000 tons of sand from the inlet channel and pump it onto the beaches immediately to the west of the inlet’s western jetty, and stretching some 1,000 yards west toward Ponquogue Beach.
As planned, the sand would restore the beaches to the approximate width and height they were prior to Hurricane Irene in 2011. The beaches were severely eroded during Irene, but dune systems largely... more
The three-week project, as initially designed by the Army Corps and funded by the federal and state governments, will dredge some 250,000 tons of sand from the inlet channel and pump it onto the beaches immediately to the west of the inlet’s western jetty, and stretching some 1,000 yards west toward Ponquogue Beach.
As planned, the sand would restore the beaches to the approximate width and height they were prior to Hurricane Irene in 2011. The beaches were severely eroded during Irene, but dune systems largely... more
