This picture shows where our washed out beach sand ended up. It is just across the channel from the point where our eroded sand enters the channel where the channel wall intersects the bulkhead. A proposed spillway at the this point will be discussed at the annual owners' meeting. The idea is to channel the runoff into the bay instead of the channel.
Work continues on the repair of the breakwater. This point just past the old 'L' and looking north toward the new pier shows the new shoreguard that has been installed. The problem I see is that the new shoreguard is not lining up with the old. It seems to be not quite vertical. The workers on the barge tell me there is so much debris on the bottom they cannot drive the new pieces in vertically. They have not yet bolted the new pieces in place. The ones they removed were only 10 feet long and barely reached into the sand bottom and this caused them to fail. The new ones are 20 feet long and are well into the sand. They did say they are having trouble using their barge in the channel since the channel has become so shallow again. The last time I had my boat out, my depth finder read 1 foot deep in places and the tide was not that low.