“The beach had already been eaten up by Ian. It was down to a very slim fighting weight,” said Bodge, president of the coastal engineering firm Olsen Associates.
totaling 880,000 cubic yards was completed in early 2019, largely to repair the harm caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
“The beach had already been eaten up by Ian. It was down to a very slim fighting weight,” said Bodge, president of the coastal engineering firm. When Nicole’s big waves arrived this month, the storm “was ready to go right across the lowered beach and shoot right into the dune,” he said. Sea oats root themselves in dunes and help hold sand in place, making them a stock element in renourishment plans.
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