REPLENISHMENT UPDATE – OR NOT: Beach replenishment is still heap-high when it comes to questions lighting upon my editor’s desk. Even though an “update” meeting took place just this week between the Army Corps and Island mayors, it simply confirmed existing data, namely, the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. will have two of its so-called trailing suction hopper dredges – the Padre Island and the Dodge Island – back in position by April 9. Sand will be flying onto Beach Haven’s beachfront by mid-April.
The sand for the Area 6 fix, from the Queen City through Holgate (non-refuge area), will be coming from ye olden borrow…
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