The newest concern over beach erosion at Wild Dunes Resort is the hundreds of five-gallon sandbags used as emergency erosion fighters have been seen floating at sea and in estuaries. Property owners who used the bags are being fined, but they say regulators told them to use the bags. Environmentalists worry the bags will be mistaken as food by turtles and other marine life, leading to deaths.
Property owners were cited Friday for violating an enforcement order to remove the smaller bags by the state agency that regulates their use. Homeowners say the state Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management is the agency that told them to use the bags in the first place.
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