Cape Charles Beach will be closed to the public beginning Monday, March 13th, through Sunday, March 19th, for the annual beach/sand maintenance. With the presence of the heavy machinery and maintenance work, it was decided, to ensure the safety of our residents and their children and pets, that it was best to close the beach to the public during that time.
From the town -The town appreciates your cooperation by abiding by the posted signs and staying off the sand during this week, to allow our Public Works crew to complete this important project to improve one of the Town’s best assets in preparation for the upcoming season.
Does this work include the lowering of the dunes so people living near the beach can see the Bay like we used to?
That would be a BIG mistake
I have idea if this would be possible but, maybe the stone plant could be a good neighbor and barge in a few loads of sand.
This would be a cosmetic replenishment but, would help cover up some of the plastic liner beginning to show through.
Well Tom, what you are asking for, is for the “Stone company ” to donate thousands of dollars to a town that constantly complains to them about their operational procedures.
What you should ask, is why did the town council turned down free sand from the U S Army corp of Engineers? And where have the erosion control fences been for the last two years?
Once the town loses the beach ( which is man-made) you lost the tourist.
Now, if you were the “stone company ” would you donate anything to the town where you get complaints from?
And just a side note. Have you been to the north end of the beach lately? You have a little over 20ft of sand between the roadway and high tide.
If you got rid of the sand dunes there would not be ANY barriers between the road and the Chesapeake Bay. Now what would happen if a hurricane or a northeastern storm hit the area?
Come on man, think!
I did read where awhile back the Army Corp offered dredged sand for the beach. I think the jetties were being built/reinforced at the time.
Dunes stabilize the beach…need to stay in place.
Just thinking a few barges of white sand at each rock jetty beach would offer at least a cosmetic repair for the beach loss.
Editor’s Note: One of the big issues is that Corps dredged the harbor channel, and dumped the sand onto the beach, and also deposited many tons in the site behind the water tower. The sand, however, is not “beach quality” sand–it is too fine (needs to be coarser), and blows all over the place. It is also creating dunes that are increasingly harder to control.
The “mistake” is the sand in the homeowners’ yards. And yes, some of them were there before the dunes. Also, after this work is the beach still going to be a public beach?
What kind of question is that,,,?
I’m not an engineer, I just know what works.
It used to be some locals would take their used Christmas trees to the waters edge as a water break. Mother nature would deposit sand over it to make a small dunes.
In Virginia Beach people still do that, but they place them at the foot of the dunes. It works.
I’m hard on the town manager and town council because they do nothing to easy this recurring event. Yet they spend money on foolish projects instead of taking care of the one resource that’ brings people to Cape Charles (without the beach, it’s just another town).
Years ago, they used to put up snow fences to help restore the beach. They do nothing now.
Hell, Rehoboth Beach still uses snow fencing on the beach.
The last time the town used heavy equipment on the beach they destroyed the dunes, overview decking and walkways. It took them over a year to fix it and it was done as a quick fix, not professional repaired.
This week, the town is faced with Northwestern winds. It will surely cause more beach erosion.
It’s easy to throw other people’s money at the problem. But wouldn’t it be beneficial for the town to look at a long term solution?
Wayne, we’ll just have to agree to disagree about the use of the channel sand. But if the Army Corps offers the sand for the beach it can’t be that bad. Hell, I rather have fine sand like Croatan beach than the little league baseball sand they have now.
D. Luther says: I’m not an engineer, I just know what works.
Then you are a lot better engineer than the pack of drooling fools today who call themselves engineers and don’t have a clue about how anything works, period.
It is hoped that Kings Creek will begin dredging right after Labor Day. The intent is to place approximately 25,000 cubic yards of sediment from the dredging onto the northern end of the beach with town equipment redistribution of the sediment from the dredge outfall. This all depends upon additional funding to be received by a grant award from the Waterways Management Fund and successful negotiation of a dredge contract. We had hoped to complete this last year, but contractor bids exceeded our grant award and we had to defer until this year.
Sediment is not sand.
And what’s in the sediment?
It would be something if the town shipped a bunch of toxic waste to make a beach out of – that would be quite the tourist draw, alright.
Sediment from dredging is the professional technical designation of the material obtained from dredging. The sediment in the area of the Kings Creek dredging has been sampled in multiple locations and analyzed and found to be free of toxics and graded beach quality. The permits and disposal plan have been approved by the required regulatory agencies.
So this sediment is safe? Yet the sediment from the 2 Chesapeake Bay tunnels are toxic?
Hey go for it! All the dredging projects I seen in around Lynnhaven rivers, cuts and little outlets is black/gray mud. I think the tourist deserves the best.
If not toxic, how about all the crap that people have thrown in King’s creek for years.
You just can’t fix stupid in Cape Charles
Hear! Hear!!
Thank you.
Sediment is what the Town Council has in their heads.
You better check with the black community leaders to see how they feel about it….
And the sediment would match the pungent smell from the south end bathrooms.
Boy, you just can’t make this stuff up. LMAO!
Who thinks up these projects?
Well, it’s like this: first, a study is done.
That of course takes a lot of time and costs maybe $50,000.
Once the study is done, then, of course, there needs to be a report on the study, and what the study recommends.
Once the report is done, then, there needs to be a committee formed to study the report and its recommendations.
Once that study is done, then there needs to be a report prepared by the review committee on that study of the first report.
And then that report goes to the town officials responsible for funding what the first report recommends, provided the review committee didn’t change anything.
And after all of that study and reports, you end up with stinking toilets.
Which then will spawn a whole new cycle, because why the toilets stink will have to be studied, and another report prepared, and in the meantime, HOLD YOUR NOSE!
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT – PERFECTION?
And there you are, the problem is you!
And the Cape Charles Mirror is so fun!
Liberal Wet Dreams…
Who thinks up these projects?
That’s a no-brainer these days – these are REAL GOOD IDEAS from REAL SMART PEOPLE who are in some way politically connected, maybe somebody’s wife, or girlfriend, or brother-in-law who can’t hold a job because he is too busy thinking up REAL GOOD IDEAS, although they’re actually quite dumb, but for the sake of maintaining dignity in the family, a committee is formed to evaluate the REAL GOOD IDEA and each of those committee members will have to conference on it with their people, and after all that conferencing, the committee members get back together, and that is when all that other stuff above then happens, since the committee members can’t make any decisions without further study, which in turn kicks public money into the pockets of other relatives or girlfriends, or maybe boyfriends, and for them, as a result, life is good, money for nothing, and all that, plus no blisters on your little finger or thumb from playing rock-and-roll in a roadside honkey-tonk with ballistic chicken wire in front of the stage to catch incoming beer bottles aimed at their heads, and since the whole process is intended to waste time, because nobody wants to be the one to tell the politician his brother-in-law’s GOOD IDEA was stupid and wouldn’t work, and none of them have a clue as to what will work, you got STINKING TOILETS out of the deal.
It seems like the beach is ignored, the dudes grow to 25′ and then there’s a week long closure (which only affects full time residents) then we have all this debate. If the beach is Cape Charles treasure, why isn’t there a regular beach maintenance program in place?
It would make far too much sense?
Because Come-Here’s are in charge.