To help ease concerns over renourishment

One of our board presidents wrote as good a summation as I have read on this heavily discussed subject.....';widening the beach from Garden City to Cherry Grove by getting sand from about 8 miles out as determined by the US Army Corps of Engineers, then brought to pumping station nearly a mile off shore by two barges. It then takes about an hour or so to load and then a bit under an hour to unload. A 30 inch metal pipe is used to get the sand to the shore with a starting pressure of about 300 PSI. The pipe is run perpindicular to the shore to preserve';fish lanes'; and at the elbow the pressure is estimated at close to 400 PSI. The 40% sand/60%water slurry is pumped up (N) the beach and dumped into a 100 foot wide trench bulldozed out to make way for the new sand and when coming out of the end of the pipe rises 2 - 5 feet depending on distance from the pumping area with the sand piling up and water forced to runoff back to sea at the northern end of the trench and sand bulldozed off to the side as it builds up leaving a 100 foot wider beach at high tide';. They completed our approx. 800 feet of ocean front in ';two nights and one day (as they work 24/7) helping preserve our shoreline boundaries as well providing more sea treasures, shells, fossilized sharks teeth, to be searched for by beach combers.';

Primarily, they completed our resort shore line in approx. 36 hours and moved on. True, the sand is darker and the op is mildly inconvenient, but it will not ruin your vacation.

To help ease concerns over renourishment

Thanks for posting this nanajane.

One thing I have learned by reading TA posts is that some people are very uncomfortable about uncertainly in any aspect of their vacation and this project has brought them out in droves.

We have been told that there are some who would absolutely consider their vacation ruined if they happened to arrive just as the dreaded pipe did. We also know many are very apprehensive about it %26amp; many others have needlessly abandoned their MB stay this season rather than face that possibility.

It is fairly easy to avoid being anywhere near the ';pipe'; just by keeping abreast of the schedule %26amp; project progress. For perhaps 5% of vacationers, the project may be too close to your property in your timeslot to accurately predict it%26#39;s impact, but even by crossing your fingers and not monitoring the project the odds are slim it will be anywhere near you.

We are all different. I, for one, don%26#39;t see how anyone can hope to eliminate all uncertainties from their vacations (or their lives). You certainly can%26#39;t predict the weather way in advance, and that is going to have a much greater impact on your vacation than the replenishment project.

To help ease concerns over renourishment

Nice to hear a calming voice in a ';sea of panic';.My son works at the Dunes Club and they moved thru that area in the time mentioned.They appear to be right on schedule.

I was also a little worried after reading the threads regarding this. But, my husband reminded me that about 8-10 years ago this was going on very close to where we were staying. It took me a while to remember, but he%26#39;s right! So, I guess it didn%26#39;t ruin our trip, otherwise I wouldn%26#39;t need to be reminded.