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Location:
Looking west from Shoreline Village Condos |
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Location:
Looking west, at lake outflow site, across from Carousel |
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Location:
Looking west from Dan Russell Pier, across from Aaron Bessant Park |
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Location:
Looking west from Old Panama City Beach |
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Sea oats and coastal scrub trap sands, and cause dunes to form. They also hold anchor dunes against wind and waves. Most beach vegetation has been destroyed by coastal construction in Panama City. Consequently, the defenseless beach washed away during the storm tides and battering waves of Hurricanes Opal and Georges.
Through dredging and filling, offshore sand was pumped onto the beach in a 20 million dollar beach restoration project.
The results vary greatly throughout the miles of the project, with drastic alteration of the world-famous sugar sand beach replaced by dirt-like sand with a high broken shell content in some areas, and gray to black pebbly sand in other areas.
The pristine sugar sand that squeaks under your feet and glistens on your skin is buried under tons of dredge and fill. Project engineers maintain that the replacement sand on the beach is within the 3% variability of sand quality as specified in the renourishment contract.
Walton County has contracted to renourish our beach in South Walton. The result will be identical to Panama City. Tons of peanut butter brown Pleistocene age sand dredged from the offshore ocaean bottom will forever bury our Holcene (nearly 100% quartz) sugar sand beaches. Contact the Walton County Commissioners and tell them a dredge and fill beach is unacceptable in South Walton. Tell them we want our pristine world-renowned sugar sands with our hallmark meandering coastal dune lake outlets to remain as they are - a natural beach. |
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