The latest edition of Coastal Connection – a publication of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control’s Division of Soil & Water Conservation (two ampersands and deep breath) – contains some stats about the beach replenishment project so far, including (at the time of publication) about 726 loads of sand pumped, each dropping 2,050 cubic yards of sand on the beach. Those figures translate to about 1.5 million cubic yards of sand on the beaches of Bethany Beach and Sea Colony, as well as parts of South Bethany, in about two months.
While folks at the beach have seen the sand coming out of the pipes and bulldozers pushing it around, they haven’t seen how the sand got to the pipe in the first place. Page 3 of the DNRECDSWC (now that’s serious bit of governmental alphabet soup) newsletter tells the story of beach replenishment from the dredge ship’s point of view.
Download the Winter 2008 Coastal Connection here.
