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Letter: Inferior sand means inferior beaches
September 2, 2008 - 2:29 PM
My wife and I presently own two condos on Okaloosa Island. We are very much against the restoring of sand on the Island. The reason for this is simple. The quality of the sand will not be up to the standards that owners and visitors are accustomed to having at the beaches on Okaloosa Island. There presently is more than enough sand between buildings and the water. Please don't let them destroy the beauty of our beaches by adding inferior sand.
Barb and Carl Larsen
Owners of Dune Point and Island Princess
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| To fishyhead, have you not read the facts? Regarding the sand source being darker than native sand, I quote FDEP and Taylor Engineering. Request for Additional Information 0286020 001 JC, Okaloosa County Okaloosa Island , FDEP asks “Please justify the color limit of 5Y 6 slash 2 or lighter. Is a moist 7 slash 2 or lighter limit not attainable?“ The Taylor Engineering Okaloosa Island Beach Management Feasibility Study, November 2007, states “native beach color 5Y 8 slash 1 or lighter“ and “Okaloosa island sand is 8 and a half.” Why should we accept a 6, when Cocoa Beach is a 6 and a half, Pensacola Beach is 9 and a quarter, and sugar is 10? |
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| knowledge is power - Sep 15, 2008 10:01:36 AM | Remove Comment |
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| The Destin City Council is full of something, that's for sure. I'll let the FDEP and courts decide what's best for the beaches. |
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| level head - Sep 11, 2008 01:21:40 AM | Remove Comment |
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| The Destin City Council is full of natives. Noboby understands the importants of sand color or texture of the beach, That sand is embedded in them socially, creatively, spiritfully,and emotionally. If Destin, Windes, Barker says it ok, it's good. period. |
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| fishyhead - Sep 10, 2008 09:51:44 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Look at the weekly poll with 73 percent of readers opposed and 8,595 votes. Stop the "restoration" project before it is too late. |
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| poll watcher - Sep 05, 2008 09:33:13 AM | Remove Comment |
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| We are against the beach restoration plan. |
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| Ward and Shirley Kolpack - Sep 04, 2008 02:07:05 PM | Remove Comment |
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| My comment was removed too. The source for the borrow site sand being more coarse than native sand is FDEP. “Request for Additional Information 0286020 001 JC, Okaloosa County Okaloosa Island Regarding the Sediment Characteristics table, Table 1, Attachment G, Please justify the upper limit of the mean grain size range. From the information presented on the borrow area, an upper limit of point 60 millimeters seems rather coarse. Native sand is point 34 millimeters.“ |
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| repost - Sep 03, 2008 03:27:34 PM | Remove Comment |
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| This post was removed. Restored beaches degrade 2 to 10 times more quickly than native beaches. Source is Dr. Orrin Pilkey, Duke University. |
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| one more time - Sep 03, 2008 03:21:55 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Who keeps removing other peoples comments? This morning I saw a question posted and a couple of factual replies. Now they are gone. Nothing insulting or crude. Just good factual information. Just because you don’t like the facts is no reason to remove the comments of others. That is not appropriate for a debate on the merits. |
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| Play Fair - Sep 03, 2008 02:53:00 PM | Remove Comment |
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| MSBU Minich's Sand Butt Ugly |
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| SayNotoUglyBeachesSNUB - Sep 03, 2008 02:12:42 PM | Remove Comment |
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| You cant take the cream out of the coffee. What do we do when all our beaches are spoiled with dark, coarse sand? |
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| coffee drinker - Sep 03, 2008 02:01:38 PM | Remove Comment |
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| I wholeheartedly agree with all the comments made about the beach restoration plan not being a good idea for Okaloosa Island. It is interesting to see that out of 8439 votes in the readers' poll, 73 percent say it is not a good idea. Why, why, why do we want to bring sand up on the beach that is darker than the beautiful native sand? We own property there and come several times a year. We have looked back through pictures we've taken through the years and the beach is growing! It went through a period after Ivan when there was less beach area, but mother nature is working. Leave our beaches alone! They are beautiful just the way they are. Final word, no dark sand! |
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| Wilson - Sep 03, 2008 12:40:09 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Regarding the sand source being darker than native sand, I quote FDEP and Taylor Engineering. Request for Additional Information 0286020 001 JC, Okaloosa County Okaloosa Island , FDEP asks “Please justify the color limit of 5Y 6 slash 2 or lighter. Is a moist 7 slash 2 or lighter limit not attainable?“ The Taylor Engineering Okaloosa Island Beach Management Feasibility Study, November 2007, states “native beach color 5Y 8 slash 1 or lighter“ and “Okaloosa island sand is 8 and a half.” Why should we accept a 6, when Cocoa Beach is a 6 and a half, Pensacola Beach is 9 and a quarter, and sugar is 10? |
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| Knowledge is power - Sep 03, 2008 12:10:28 PM | Remove Comment |
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| MSBU Makes Sandy Beaches Ugly. |
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| sand lover - Sep 03, 2008 09:03:53 AM | Remove Comment |
