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.
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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--------