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Beach contamination in Seagrove
- Thread starter ecopal
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Miss Kitty
Meow
For the record and as a reminder...my SWCC membership and check went out in today's mail. Printer was out of ink and couldn't get it done sooner. I made a note on there that I was very concerned about the sand quality issue and as an absentee property owner I would be willing to help in any way I can from afar. If you were thinking about joining...Just Do It!!!
Paula
Beach Fanatic
I received the following email reply from Rick Harter today. So, I highly recommend that we get people to send these emails to the appropriate people listed in the postings above. We may get a response. I'm going to thank him for his quick reply along with a copy of SJ's photo of the brown sand. The goal is not to just stop new use of brown sand, but to get the people using this substandard sand to have to remove it.
Jim Martinello, from our Bureau, will (or possibly already has) inspect(ed) the alleged violation this week and will respond accordingly. We appreciate your concern and thank you for your observations.
Rick Harter
FDEP Bureau of Beaches & Coastal Systems
Jim Martinello, from our Bureau, will (or possibly already has) inspect(ed) the alleged violation this week and will respond accordingly. We appreciate your concern and thank you for your observations.
Rick Harter
FDEP Bureau of Beaches & Coastal Systems
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Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
The story just ran on the 6:30am news. It will probably be repeated in another 30min and again tonight.
Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
The story is not on their website, www.wjhg.com.
In my opinion, and others', they left out the critical part of the story regading the County's blatent breach of the rules which it set in place in Aug. The reporter interviewed two people and chopped their story into a brief snip-it. The reporter failed to attempt to interview anyone from the County to get the scoop on any wrong doing. In my opinion, this would be a really big scoop for an investigative reporter, but I guess we don't have any in the panhandle of FL.
The report basically summarized that some people are upset that people having been dumping darker sand on the beach. They did mention the required minimums, but overall, lacked a grasp of the corrupt politics behind it all, which may be a bigger story than the dark sand.
IMO, the dark sand is only a symptom of the true problem, which is corrupt people in public office.
In my opinion, and others', they left out the critical part of the story regading the County's blatent breach of the rules which it set in place in Aug. The reporter interviewed two people and chopped their story into a brief snip-it. The reporter failed to attempt to interview anyone from the County to get the scoop on any wrong doing. In my opinion, this would be a really big scoop for an investigative reporter, but I guess we don't have any in the panhandle of FL.
The report basically summarized that some people are upset that people having been dumping darker sand on the beach. They did mention the required minimums, but overall, lacked a grasp of the corrupt politics behind it all, which may be a bigger story than the dark sand.
IMO, the dark sand is only a symptom of the true problem, which is corrupt people in public office.
