Here comes the sand to Satellite Beach

[bikerlawyer]

You'd think they would find a better way to spend a few million bucks!

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090122/NEWS01/901220323/1006&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL

 

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[wreckdiver1715]

No kidding! No wonder we are in an economic crisis, the politicians keep dumping truckloads of dirt onto the beach, just so we can watch it wash out to sea.

 

[sabre15]

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[billinstuart]

I feel sorry for you, and the beaches themselves. McGarry must be a total idiot. DIRT D-I-R-T comes from borrow pits. It contains organic fines that cloud the longshore waters. It contains grains of sand..dirt..that are different from that found on the beaches.

This is a terrible solution. And you have FIT right there. They have an extremely competent Oceanography department, and are very knowledgeable about beaches in that area.

Hopefully there are some beach activist groups that can stop this through litigation?

 

[wreckdiver1715]

There are not, as a matter of fact I was on the beach last year listening to some FIT students interview one of the project supervisors. It was later stated in "Florida Today" (yesterdays new tomorrow), that you cant tell the difference between that DIRT from the Pitts. Bull, It's dirt, plane and simple, nasty, crummy, filthy dirt. Where are all the tree hugging, turtle protecting activist as our public beaches are being systematically destroyed by our own state and local governments?
Please! Do you think that the tourist that run our economy really want to come down to Florida to frolic in the dirt by the sea?

Tom

 

[crazyjarhead]

That's what you call "Pork barrel spending"

 

[billinstuart]

Who said you can't differentiate between borrow pit dirt and beach sand? I hope it wasn't the FIT students. As a graduate of FIT from the last millennium, who did his undergraduate thesis on beach erosion, I can assure you I can tell the difference, and obviously Tom can tell the difference. What an absolute crock of crap. I am so disgusted with government "coastal engineers" that words fail me.

Tom, you're a Brevard county resident..how much are you guys paying this idiot?

 

[wreckdiver1715]

It was a Brevard County employee supervising the project that made the --deleted-- statement, and was reported in Florida Today. This current dump project is costing 4.7 million dollars, some FEMA money left over from the previous year, and some state grant money along with our local tax money is paying for the current crap.

See this link for pictures of last years project.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,148280.0.html

Tom

 

[billinstuart]

From the newspaper, the bumbling fool appears to be Mike McGarry. I've been to the Brevard county website..even their beach renourishment website is a joke. This solution is absolutely detrimental to the environment and fiscally irresponsible.

Projects like this set a bad precedent. Our neighboring county, St. Lucie, fell for the "trucked in" BS. They had to physically remove some of it (dirt, not BS) from the beach. The ONLY comparison to true beach sand is..you can carry it in a bucket. Other than that..it's D-I-R-T.

Can you think of any environmental groups or community watchdog organizations that will carry the banner?