I just talked to a renter at my condo and found out that the beach renourishment project has just passed Lakewood Campground and is in the Pirateland area right now. There seemed to be a lot of interest about this a week or two ago.
Current location of beach renovation projectif you check out the web-cam on the CROWN REEF RESORT website , you can see something way down the shoreline to the south . it%26#39;s been inching closer for the last couple of weeks . the boats ( or whatever they are ) have hanging out in the same general area off shore and i was wondering if they are part of the renourishment project ... just tossin%26#39; that out there .
Current location of beach renovation projectI think those are actually the barges housing the pumping equipment for moving the sand up onto the beach. I found it to be an interesting sight when we were there over the Christmas/New year week. They had just completed the previous renourishment when we arrived on a 1998 or so trip and I really was curious to see it in operation.
Those two ships are definately engaged in the operation. They go out quite a distance to a sandbar and suck the sand into their hulls or chambers, then return to the deck mounted pump platform %26amp; hook up to it with a huge hose...the sand is pumped from there onto the beach. The pump platform on pilings has to be moved every mile or so %26amp; we saw the next one (the one they%26#39;re probably using now) being built the first week of Feb.
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