1. Beach Renourishment
By: Charlene Lloyd, Crystal Earle, Richard Byars, Richard Tuckfield, Christine Burgess, Kaley Foley

2. What is Beach Renourishment?
Replenishment of sand for beaches
Sand is dredged off the ocean’s floor
Pump sand through pipes onto the beach
Sand is then shaped & built into dunes and beaches

3. Why Beach Renourishment?

4. How It Works…

8. Ecological Costs Hurts sea life on ocean’s floor from dredging.
Sea turtle nesting areas are endangered by some renourishment projects.
Seawalls and jetties accelerate beach erosion.

9. How much does it cost? Is it a waste of money?
10-15 million spent annually and more on hard structures
200 cubic yards of sand has gone to renourish America’s beaches
Sand can cost as much as $5 per cubic yard
A new beach can cost 2 million per square miles
Beaches must be continually renourished

10. Does it work? Yes, temporarily Not efficient in long run
Extensive costs are not worth it

11. Who benefits? Beach businesses Tourists Property owners
Historic preservationists

12. Who pays for beach renourishment?
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designs and implements renourishment operations and pays for them.

13. Who pays…
Tax payers
65% paid for by federal tax and the remainder of costs is paid by state and local governments.
Increased cost of taxpayer-subsidized flood insurance payments when floods and hurricanes occur.

14. How is this related to the Commons?
Public beaches are a commons.
Property owners and businesses are the “economic man.”
Individual gain in property values and tourism for businesses but all citizens pay
Temporary technical solution
Maximizes one beach while diminishing surrounding beaches

15. Pros and Cons Pros Increased tourism/recreation Economic positives
Aesthetically pleasing
Cons
Adversely effects the habitat of endangered species.
Hurts Surf Zone Environments
Program Hurts Taxpayers

16. Resolution Current beach renourishment programs do not work
Other possibilities…managed retreat and the UK
5th Amendment implications

17. Questions?

18. Work Cited
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