Dec 12, 2012 9:17 AM
During his visit to the Shinnecock Inlet Monday morning, U.S. Representative Tim Bishop said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would expand a beach rebuilding project currently under way to include an additional 2,000-plus feet of shoreline in the area of Tiana Beach.
The original project, which began on November 30, was designed to dredge approximately 128,000 cubic yards of sand from the inlet and use it to restore about 2,100 feet of beaches west of the inlet to their state prior to Hurricane Irene in 2011. Additional sand will be used to restore what was lost during Superstorm Sandy, and about 115,000 cubic yards more will be dredged and used to bolster the Tiana Beach region.
In total, about 450,000 cubic yards will be removed from the inlet and pumped on... more
The original project, which began on November 30, was designed to dredge approximately 128,000 cubic yards of sand from the inlet and use it to restore about 2,100 feet of beaches west of the inlet to their state prior to Hurricane Irene in 2011. Additional sand will be used to restore what was lost during Superstorm Sandy, and about 115,000 cubic yards more will be dredged and used to bolster the Tiana Beach region.
In total, about 450,000 cubic yards will be removed from the inlet and pumped on... more
Someone should tell Timmy that Mother Nature doesn't care. You could have dunes 50 feet high - water will undermine it and take them away.
The deeper inlet ...more brings more water into the bay and hastens the erosion of a CPF property on the north side of the bay along with private properties. The homes damaged by Sandy around Shinnecock Bay can be chalked up to poor engineering by the ACE...