Renourisment in Follys Future
Follys beaches are about to get lot of sand. $20.4 million worth of sand, in fact. The Fiscal Year 2013 Work Plan by the Office of Management and Budget released this month includes over $20 million for the US Army Corps of Engineers to renourish Folly.
The barrier island looses a little more sand with every tropical storm or hurricane that brushes the coast. And dwindling beaches, houses very close to the waters edge, and closed county parks are just some of the symptoms of beach erosion. The issue also plagues the islands wildlife, like the loggerhead turtles who come to nest each year.
But the approved funds, along with the City of Folly Beachs 15 percent cost share, means that 1.5 million cubic yards of sand can be pumped from the bottom of the ocean to the almost five and a half miles of Follys beaches.
Please drop a line of thanks to Sen. Lindsey Graham, who fought long and hard to get us $20,400,000, writes Mayor Tim Goodwin in the July Sandspur, the monthly publication from the City of Folly Beach. Rep. Jim Clyburn was also very helpful.
This renourishment project will work in harmony with the renourishment project recently completed at the Folly Beach County Park site, which has just invested $3.5 million to add more sand to the park space and to build a terminal groin to help alleviate future erosion.
Construction is scheduled to begin at the end of October.
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momg October 09, 2013
It's LOSES, NOT LOOSES....
jeanne caggio October 09, 2013
Are you really taking federal money. Do you think Lindsay Graham has a right to even ask, after denying aid to New Jersey. What hypocrites you are.
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Leigha Baer August 05, 2013
I think I lived out at Folly the last time the beach was renourished in 2001? I'm not sure what the cost was the last time however 20 million does seem like a lot of money for sand and I have to wonder who it's really helping. It seems like those who benefit the most are those with homes along the waterfront. Perhaps they should contribute to the cost.
Leigha Baer August 05, 2013
JCoghlan I think that's a great idea! Has it been used elsewhere?