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Amateur Trench Diggers Uncork Brimming Sagg Pond to Ocean

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The small trench dug by someone though just a few feet of sand between Sagg Pond and the ocean on Wednesday quickly widened to more than 50 feet wide as the brimming pond flushed out to the ocean. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The small trench dug by someone though just a few feet of sand between Sagg Pond and the ocean on Wednesday quickly widened to more than 50 feet wide as the brimming pond flushed out to the ocean. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The small trench dug by someone though just a few feet of sand between Sagg Pond and the ocean on Wednesday quickly widened to more than 50 feet wide as the brimming pond flushed out to the ocean. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The small trench dug by someone though just a few feet of sand between Sagg Pond and the ocean on Wednesday quickly widened to more than 50 feet wide as the brimming pond flushed out to the ocean. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The small trench dug by someone though just a few feet of sand between Sagg Pond and the ocean on Wednesday quickly widened to more than 50 feet wide as the brimming pond flushed out to the ocean. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The small trench dug by someone though just a few feet of sand between Sagg Pond and the ocean on Wednesday quickly widened to more than 50 feet wide as the brimming pond flushed out to the ocean. MICHAEL WRIGHT

authorMichael Wright on Aug 4, 2024
Whoever the beachgoers were who dug a trench through the beach near Sagg Pond and uncorked a torrent of brackish water spilling out into the ocean, they appear to have... more

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