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Coincidentally, NYSDEC just issued a public notice of the Corps’ proposal to dredge 800,000 cy of sand from East Rockaway Inlet to use for “to restore hurricane damaged dunes and beaches along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline of the Rockaways”. See: http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/20130424_reg1.html#128200147500006
Not clear what the specific plans are, but it’s a good bet that it’s whatever standard beach replenishment they’d do typically do on Rockaway, without consideration of more sustainable alternatives. The most recent info I can find on the Corps website (dated “current as of Feb. 2013”) is here: http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Media/FactSheets/FactSheetArticleView/tabid/11241/Article/10000/fact-sheet-east-rockaway-inlet-to-rockaway-inlet-rockaway-beach.aspx
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