Beach Renourishment

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Beach Renourishment

• By Charlene Lloyd, Crystal Earle, Richard Byars,
  Richard Tuckfield, Christine Burgess, Kaley Foley

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What is Beach Renourishment?

• Replenishment of sand for beaches
• Sand is dredged off the oceans floor
• Pump sand through pipes onto the beach
• Sand is then shaped built into dunes and
  beaches

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Why Beach Renourishment?
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How It Works
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Ecological Costs

• Hurts sea life on oceans floor from dredging.
• Sea turtle nesting areas are endangered by some
  renourishment projects.
• Seawalls and jetties accelerate beach erosion.

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How much does it cost? Is it a waste of money?

• 10-15 million spent annually and more on hard
  structures
• 200 cubic yards of sand has gone to renourish
  Americas beaches
• Sand can cost as much as 5 per cubic yard
• A new beach can cost 2 million per square miles
• Beaches must be continually renourished

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Does it work?

• Yes, temporarily
• Not efficient in long run
• Extensive costs are not worth it

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Who benefits?

• Beach businesses
• Tourists
• Property owners
• Historic preservationists

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Who pays for beach renourishment?

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designs and
  implements renourishment operations and pays for
  them.

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Who pays

• Tax payers
• 65 paid for by federal tax and the remainder of
  costs is paid by state and local governments.
• Increased cost of taxpayer-subsidized flood
  insurance payments when floods and hurricanes
  occur.

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How is this related to the Commons?

• Public beaches are a commons.
• Property owners and businesses are the economic
  man.
• Individual gain in property values and tourism
  for businesses but all citizens pay
• Temporary technical solution
• Maximizes one beach while diminishing surrounding
  beaches

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Pros and Cons

• Pros
• Increased tourism/recreation
• Economic positives
• Aesthetically pleasing

• Cons
• Adversely effects the habitat of endangered
  species.
• Hurts Surf Zone Environments
• Program Hurts Taxpayers

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Resolution

• Current beach renourishment programs do not work
• Other possibilitiesmanaged retreat and the UK
• 5th Amendment implications

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Questions?
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Work Cited

• http//www.wrightsville.com/story_of_beach_renouri
  shment_at_wrightsville_beach.htm
• http//www.greenscissors.org/water/beach.htm
• http//www.beachtobay.org/html/beach_renourishment
  .htm
• http//wps.prenhall.com/esm_thurman_introocean_9/0
  ,7305,348174-,00.html
• http//comewalkwithme.com/Beach.html
• http//www.islandtime.com/ShiftingSands/
• http//nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/enviro_9697/beach
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• beach.html