BeachSiO2
Beach Fanatic
Outside of state parks, the county also owns some property at their beach accesses that is publc also. More land is owned at regional beach accesses and they have parking also. All county-maintained beach and bay accesses can be found at: http://www.protectwaltoncountybeaches.com/accesses.asp
The addresses are correct, but the map is dated and doesn't include all accesses.
As for what could happen, the sherrif deputies could cite you for tresspassing. However, where private ownership exists, the private ownership can only extend to the location of the Mean High Water Elevation. The state owns everything below (or south) of mean high water. If someone asks (or tells) someone to move off their property it should require them to demonstrate where that location is. The ONLY way to do that accurately is via survey. It would be interesting to see how many owners have an up-to-date survey that would stand up legally in a court.
One other note, where the beach restoration has occurred, the mean high water line was set by the establishment of an Erosion Control Line and does not move like it does in the 30-A area. This means there is now a publically-owned dry beach that was created by placing sand in the water seaward of the MHW line (ECL in this case). In other words, part of the dry beach would be publically-owned and part could be privately-owned. Sandtrap is located within the project area. It would be interesting to see if the owner was removing people from land south of the ECL because if they are, then they would be removing them from publically-owned beach. They should have to demonstrate that people were north of the ECL at least until the aforementioned Supreme Court Case is ruled upon.
The addresses are correct, but the map is dated and doesn't include all accesses.
As for what could happen, the sherrif deputies could cite you for tresspassing. However, where private ownership exists, the private ownership can only extend to the location of the Mean High Water Elevation. The state owns everything below (or south) of mean high water. If someone asks (or tells) someone to move off their property it should require them to demonstrate where that location is. The ONLY way to do that accurately is via survey. It would be interesting to see how many owners have an up-to-date survey that would stand up legally in a court.
One other note, where the beach restoration has occurred, the mean high water line was set by the establishment of an Erosion Control Line and does not move like it does in the 30-A area. This means there is now a publically-owned dry beach that was created by placing sand in the water seaward of the MHW line (ECL in this case). In other words, part of the dry beach would be publically-owned and part could be privately-owned. Sandtrap is located within the project area. It would be interesting to see if the owner was removing people from land south of the ECL because if they are, then they would be removing them from publically-owned beach. They should have to demonstrate that people were north of the ECL at least until the aforementioned Supreme Court Case is ruled upon.
