Sankaty Head beach project

[Hooper]

On the heels of the Chatham cut thread down below, have any of you guys heard about the huge project that is being debated on Nantucket at the Sankanty Head area?

Here is it in the Reader's Digest version: There is a group of property owners who are in danger of losing their homes to the erosion of the eastern shore of Nantucket. In recent years, there have been steps taken to slow or stop the erosion of the beach and bank, such as the installation of terraces, pressure treated 4x4's, and husge sand bags. Obviously, those of us from the Cape who have half a brain realize that man has never been able to achieve this goal and probably never will.

However, this is the year 2007. And money is on the move. The idea? Take millions and millions yards of sand from the Bass Rip shoal, located east of the island and pump it onto the beach, instant fix, right? Well, the idea is it would beef up the Sankaty Head area and the beaches around 'Sconset. As it is, the place looks like a war zone, 4x4's and burlap bags litter the area and in any storm, this one for example, hundreds of these 4x4's will end up in the ocean, sound environmentally friendly to you? Look at the photos posted on the FFSW thread, it is truly sad.

John, please allow me to post a few links which might explain things in more detail:

http://grantsanders.blogspot.com/200...4_archive.html

http://www.flyfishsaltwaters.com/ubb...;f=12;t=000312

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art..._shore/?page=1

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/05/...e-beach-brawl/


I find it simply amazing... say a mechanic wants to take his family out on Nauset Beach to fish and have a cookout in July in their Ford Bronco. But he can't, plovers are nesting, remember? But somehow, it would be OK to conduct a project of this scale which could potentially wreak havoc on the shoreline, not to mention the shoals east of Nantucket, for only 100 extremely wealthy homeowners?

It is funny too how the Cape Wind wind farm project makes the news almost nightly on the Boston news stations, but have any of you seen a single story on this on Channel 5? Must be because they are guests of some of these proponents of the beach renourishment project....

Like I have written before, I think this is a great example of how this country has lost its' soul.

Please, spread the word on this......I'd be interested to hear what you think on this.