Pinellas County lost 1M cubic yards of sand in hurricanes [Video]

“This is basically an erasing of the last 30 years of [renourishment] projects,” Dr. John Bishop, the Pinellas County coastal management director, said.

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — Pinellas County Coastal Management estimates Hurricane Helene displaced up to one million cubic yards of sand from the county’s beaches.

That is more than 300 Olympic-sized pools worth of sand.

Dr. John Bishop is the coastal management coordinator for Pinellas County.

“This was definitely a landscape-changing event,” Bishop said. “This is basically an erasing of the last 30 years of projects and there are some places on Sunset Beach that haven’t been this eroded since the 60s or 70s when this project began.”

Meanwhile, the county is filing an emergency permit with the Army Corps of Engineers to approve renourishment work in these federally controlled waters.

It’s work that’s already happening in Pass-A-Grille because of an existing permit.

“It could take a …

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