Thread: Check the camera at the West Beach Pass

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

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.”

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...

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.

Originally Posted by Pier#r

WOW!
They are excavating a new cut out to the SE and backfilling toward the west...

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.

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)

Originally Posted by CarlF

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.

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.

Like I said, it will just extend the time period between dredging. It will also provide a jam up place to catch sheepshead.

FWIW the dredge/fill operation continues @ LLPass...


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.


Yeah, that's what I said!

Will that sand stay there? I feel like it wont, but I don't know.