Saturday, May 18, 2019

Only eleven blocks of Rockaway Beach gets new sand



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Rockaway Beach is whole again.

Mayor Bill de Blasio joined elected officials at Beach 94th Street Tuesday to announce the sand restoration operation mounted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was successful.

Now, the popular stretch of the beach from Beach 92nd Street to Beach 103rd Street, which was closed all last season due to erosion that made the area unsafe for swimming, will be open in time for Memorial Day weekend.

“For New Yorkers, summer means Rockaway Beach. That’s why I could not be happier to announce we will have the entire beach open in time for the Memorial Day weekend,” de Blasio said. “I want to thank all the stakeholders who came together to make the hopes of so many New Yorkers a reality. 

We could not have done it without your partnership.”

The Corps dredged the East Rockaway Inlet and pumped the sand two and a half miles west where bulldozers restored the beach.

“Getting tons of sand onto Rockaway Beach in time for summer, and avoid a repeat disaster of prime time beach closures, required every level of government to dig in deep,” Senator Charles Schumer said. “And using the sand from the East Rockaway dredge was a win-win plan because it keeps open a vital channel and all of Rockaway Beach.”

 The closure last summer hurt restaurants and bars in the neighborhood such as Connolly’s, Bungalow Bar, Community House, Thai Rock and Uma’s.

“This is great news, not only for the residents of the Rockaways, but also for the local business owners who suffered because of last year’s beach closure,” Councilman Eric Ulrich said. “I am looking forward to a wonderful beach season where people from all over the city can enjoy Rockaway’s beautiful beaches.”

In 2013, the Army Corps of Engineers placed 3.5 million cubic yards of sand on Rockaway Beach following Superstorm Sandy but infrastructure was never constructed to keep it in place. The New York District is awaiting final approvals from USACE headquarters for the Rockaway and Jamaica Bay Reevaluation Report, which will authorize construction of erosion control features such as jetties and new groins at federal expense.

 So they added tons of new sand from dredging the east side of the shore without protection again. I give this replenishment 70 days until it gets devoured by the ocean.


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another nuthingburger on climate change for political manipulation.
Feel free to review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurricanes#New_York
"Super" storm Sandy was really minor hurricane. It just hit at high tide and
came in from the southeast which caused the swell to add to the high tide. A lot
of the damage was cause because people (developers) put buildings in poor locations.

JQ LLC said...

Re: nothingburger

There is nothing political about this. The replenishment from a few years back got wasted away in a few years. The beach has had a lot of erosion in the past few decades even before Sandy and Irene. This is only a temp fix to keep businesses thriving and to please tourists and hipsters, the only demos which the city truly cares about.

Despite the photo of the cheesy public art installation I included and alleged intentions to manipulate the issue for personal gain, the effects are real this time, I never needed Al Gore nor a very popular photogenic congresswoman to tell me this.


Anonymous said...

Genuinely when someone doesn't know afterward its up to other visitors that they will assist,
so here it takes place.

Anonymous said...

KingCon latest adventure:

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2019/05/de-blasio-campaign-already-at-risk-of.html

Anonymous said...

@JQ LLC said...

If you and your "Crapie" readers want watch someting very interesting about climate change watch this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Zd72qRkRQ

Anonymous said...

“For New Yorkers, summer means Rockaway Beach"

Apparently not for white people who use the Beach 116 stop.
This racist bastard already screwed the white sections of Rockaway by stealing hurricane Sandy relief money and now this.

Anonymous said...

The very odd thing about this hoopla? The little sand cliffs at the edge of where they planted the stunted dune grass remains
That was supposedly the big danger and reason for closing that stretch of beach
They could have just smoothed it down with a bulldozer last year.
A big storm and all that expensive sand will be back in Davy Jones Locker
The beach is nice off season - too many idiots come to Rockaway in the summer who think all the residents do is drink and smoke crack- the truth is that far too many sell drugs.

Anonymous said...

Good luck on waiting for the U.S. Gov. to do anything.

Anonymous said...

JQ:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

Climate change is just the current hobgoblin.

Beach erosion has been going on for millions of years. It simple physics.
Connecting it to climate change is a political move.

Where I am sitting right now was under a mile of ice 10,000 years ago.
It's going to be 85 tomorrow.
Climate changes.

JQ LLC said...

Last anon:

Well there are miles of ice thousands of years old that we need to stay solid in Antartica and Greenland that are breaking apart with rapid frequency and adding to the rising sea levels and will potentially spread diseases that were entombed for centuries into the air.

I'm not a scientist or a climatologist, but I been reading about this for a while.

Anonymous said...

Was it necessary for them to drug all the people standing behind DaBlaz?