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Originally Posted by Whitley
Please excuse what I am sure is going to be an oversimplified thought. On the barrier islands I inhabit, the Gulf has crept closer to my home, condo business. This would be three islands. For the past twenty five years at least, we remedy this by "beach renourishment". On the island where my office is, 8.7 million cubic yards of sand was added to the beach that runs about 15 miles long. The sand is brought to the beach from a barge and pipe system sitting a mile off shore, and dump trucks bringing sand from inland locations. Could this not be an option for places like Miami Beach? We have also built concrete groins to catch sand on the outgoing tides.
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Miami Beach has been renourished in the past, mostly because of storm erosion, not because of rising water levels. Usually, the main reason for beach renourishment is for recreation purposes. I remember when the Army Corps of Engineers refused to renourish the beach at Hilton Head, South Carolina until they provided more free publc access to the beach.