Dredging again in East Pass (Destin Jetties)

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Looks like they are going to start dredging again at East Pass at the Desin Jetties.





DREDGE IN, SO LOOK OUT! 'Careless and indifferent boaters' delay dredging
March 20, 2009 - 6:23 PM
Fraser Sherman
If youÃÓe taking your boat out of Destin harbor, be careful, Captain Kelly Windes says.

ŸeÃÓe just trying to ask everyone to go slow and not cause a wake so we donÃÕ upset this operation, said Windes, a Destin City Council member.

A dredge arrived in Destin Tuesday to begin transferring 6,000 to 7,000 cubic feet of sand from the harborÃÔ clogged navigation channel over to eroded Norriego Point. With the dredge working at the mouth of the channel this week, Windes told The Log that boats heading out into East Pass need to be more careful.


The weekly city report claims that ÅÄareless and indifferent boaters delayed the pre-dredge surveying phase of the project with their wakes.

But now things seem to be getting back on track.

Ÿhat theyÃÓe doing first is the heavily shoaled area at the entrance, said Destin Public Services Director Steve Schmidt. ŵheyÃÓe working on the south side, allowing boats to get through on the north side. TheyÃÍl have pipes from there out to Norriego Point, and theyÃÍl have markers out to steer boats around them.

Schmidt said that after a few days, the dredge should be able to move away from the harbor mouth: ŸeÃÓe hoping theyÃÍl be completely done in about three weeks, if we get cooperation from the boaters in terms of giving them room to work, and not giving them too waiting time.Ǽ


Here are some pics
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Looks like more folks on the beach whinning about the beach being restored....




BEACH RESTORATION FOES APPEAL TO U.S. SUPREME COURT
March 24, 2009 - 12:43 PM
Fraser Sherman

Opponents of Destin’s 2007 beach restoration project are appealing their 2008 defeat in the Florida Supreme Court to the highest court in the land.

“The petition for a writ of certiorari has gone to the federal Supreme Court,” Linda Cherry of Save Our Beaches told The Log. “The state will have an opportunity to answer.”

It requires the support of at least four of the nine Supreme Court justices to grant a “cert writ” and agree to review a lower court decision.

Approximately 7,500 petitions are presented each year, but the justices usually agree to hear no more than 80 to 150 cases.

Save Our Beaches and Stop the Beach Renourishment formed in 2004 to challenge a plan to restore six miles of beach, four of them in Walton County. Owners objected that south of a state-set erosion control line, all the expanded beach behind their homes would become public land.

Some owners, soured by past arguments with Destin over the public’s presence on private beachfront, said restoration was a land grab to benefit the city’s tourist industry by packing more bodies onto the beach.

“They want people in front of our houses,” homeowner Patricia Young said in 2004. “It’s only going to be done for the people who pack their pockets with money.”

Opponents challenged the Department of Environmental Protection permit for the project, and in 2006, the First District Court ruled in their favor on constitutional grounds. The court said that creating public land between the Gulf and the owners’ property removed owners’ right to maintain contact with the water and also their “right to accretion,” meaning sand that would have gradually accumulated on their private beaches would now widen public property instead.

Despite the lawsuit, and injunctions filed to stop the restoration, South Walton’s four miles of beach were restored in 2006; Destin received its sand the following year. In September 2008, the Florida Supreme Court overturned the district court’s decision.

A federal decision against beach restoration wouldn’t undo the 2007 project, but it might affect Destin’s plans to put sand on the city’s other eroded beaches. That plan has already prompted lawsuits from property owners who don’t want to be part of it.
 
I'm against it, its a waste of money to "renourish" the beaches. Its a barrier island that nature had every intention on eroding and moving, then create another one. It will continue to be eaten away by the regular action of the gulf, storms, hurricanes, etc will just quicken the process. Then they can start the entire circus over again.

Why should tax dollars be put forth to this shinanigans?
 
I'm against it, its a waste of money to "renourish" the beaches. Its a barrier island that nature had every intention on eroding and moving, then create another one. It will continue to be eaten away by the regular action of the gulf, storms, hurricanes, etc will just quicken the process. Then they can start the entire circus over again.

Why should tax dollars be put forth to this shinanigans?

Normally I would agree, but they are going to dredge the sand to keep the pass navigable, why not put the sand to good use?

And without dredging and beach renourishment, you wouldn't have PCB Jetties, Destin Jetties, Ft. Pickens Jetties, Perdido Point, or it's jetties :shocked2:

Without public beaches, you wouldn't have Yankees coming down here to spend their money, and Hooter's would have to close all it's beach locations :wink:
 
Normally I would agree, but they are going to dredge the sand to keep the pass navigable, why not put the sand to good use?

And without dredging and beach renourishment, you wouldn't have PCB Jetties, Destin Jetties, Ft. Pickens Jetties, Perdido Point, or it's jetties :shocked2:

Without public beaches, you wouldn't have Yankees coming down here to spend their money, and Hooter's would have to close all it's beach locations :wink:

Think of all the additional wrecks from boats getting stranded and overtaken by surf if the passes started filling in? Who needs jetties when you have an overwhelming abundance of wrecks :wink:

Hooters? If Gulf Shores closes, I can goto Daphne. If P'Cola Beach closes, I can goto the P'Cola Hooters on Bayou. If Destin's Hooters closes, I'll hit Crestview on the way home. If PCB's Hooters closes, I'll goto the PC Hooters a little bit inland.

Hooters planned backups for all their beach locations on the event that people come to their senses and quit wasting tax payer money on building beach to get washed away.
 
The two issues are separate. The beach renovation plan that the second article is talking about has nothing to do with the East Pass. The opposition to the beach renourishment is mainly behind the condos and private house/condos. That battle has been going on for years....I agree with Bugman on that issue. As to the East Pass...if you have a harbor you will have to continue to dredge the point.
 

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