What is that excavation intended to accomplish? Anyone have a clue?
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What is that excavation intended to accomplish? Anyone have a clue?
I was down there this afternoon.
They are using the heavy machinery to pull sand up out of the east side outside the mouth of the pass.
Something HAD to be ASAP to prevent the sandbar from closing off the mouth completely.
Probably tomorrow they will start trucking it to the west side to be dumped...
WKRG Debbie Williams report @ Crews Digging Out Little Lagoon Pass, Again
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A long-term solution, though, is still being researched according to Public Works Director Mark Acreman. “It is really going to rely on the coastal engineer to determine what that would be but hopefully with the state and their ongoing monitoring we’ll have enough data they can propose an improved solution.”
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The current project is expected to take two weeks to complete.
WOW!
They are excavating a new cut out to the SE and backfilling toward the west...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5568&stc=1
Nothing will change until an "L" shaped jetty is built prevents wave action from piling sand in the mouth. Normal tidal flow will NEVER move enough sand out to keep it open. The jetty will simply extend the intervals between dredging.
Interesting, shifting the "channel" to the east might actually help keep it open longer, the channel can move west as the sand piled up on that side moves down-drift.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pier#r
This problem is more complicated than an "L" shaped jetty or a longer jetty. Mother nature (long shore transport, tidal prism, currents and hydrology of Little Lagoon) simply doesn't support a permanent tidal pass in Little Lagoon. A
s long as the court order dictate the pass be kept open, we are going to have to periodically dredge it.
Graphic enhanced to give a perspective of dragging depth (about 6 feet)
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5569&stc=1
Like I said, it will just extend the time period between dredging. It will also provide a jam up place to catch sheepshead.Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlF
FWIW the dredge/fill operation continues @ LLPass...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5574&stc=1
The sand being removed from the mouth of the pass is being trucked westward and dumped along the beach filling in the holes and troughs.
http://dallas138.arvixeshared.com/~a...s/icon_eek.gif
Yeah, that's what I said!
Will that sand stay there? I feel like it wont, but I don't know.
THey are just basically moving the sand where it was going to go if the pass wasn't there. It will move west a/o shift around fairly quickly.
Wonder who's picking up the tab for this mess total waste of money.
ALDOT (AL taxpayers in other words), as specified in the judges court order.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert(Tato)Piteo
screen grab this am shows the scope of the hole they dug at the mouth of the pass.
Note there is already a sizable sandbar forming SE of the mouth...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5575&stc=1
The hole has been dragged out quite wide now and they are moving back toward the mouth where sand has shoaled inside the seawall on the west side...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5578&stc=1
Id hate to have my heavy equipment in that environments, cant last long with all the salt spray getting into everything.
Being submerged in saltwater and sand can't be good for the undercarriage or any other exposed carbon steel.Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlF
After the storms the pass reconfigured with a straighter (and slightly deeper) channel...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5608&stc=1
This am (Dec 9th) the heavy equipment is back out on the beach.
The east side this time...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5609&stc=1
By 10:45 am they are building some sort of driveway (I guess for the dump trucks?)
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5610&stc=1
All that digging and shifting is liable to upset the famous ghost shrimp grounds out there. Of course, if you could sift through a couple of buckets full from that backhoe--------
Its okay. Its a rentalQuote:
Originally Posted by chillinfish
Sand dragging schedule was completed Sunday Dec 18, 2016 (pic sequence of frontal passage that day)...
Pre-front (am)
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5651&stc=1
Post front (mid day)
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5652&stc=1
Post front (late day)
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5653&stc=1
Wed Dec 21, 2016 pics by Steve Jones
This one shows shoaling inside the pass, along the east wall...
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...44&oe=58E8C237
Nice point bar east of the pass...
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...e0&oe=58F86108
I was wondering if the sand level was going down at the mouth of the lagoon ?