The Post & Courier reports this morning that the offshore shoal that exacerbated the erosion on Isle of Palms is apparently moving ashore. State coastal managers recently stood atop the wall of sandbags now protecting condominiums and houses at Wild Dunes Resort and measured an increase in the beach sand.
"There is indication that the erosion due to the shoal bypass event is subsiding and the beach is starting to build back naturally," Dan Burger, communications director for the S.C. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, said in an e-mail. The beach renournishment project will however move forward as scheduled. To learn more, read the full story
In a related story, the newspaper also reported that Wild Dunes homeowners have agreed to pay a fine of $18,000 for sandbag litering. Read More
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