Save Our Beach

UPDATE:  The mouth of the San Bernard is now open! The contractor posted this picture yesterday.  This is awesome. The picture below is from their November 12 updated.  HUGE PROGRESS. Thanks Ernest Lawson for providing the info!  San Bernard picture as of November 12, 2021 They are about 70% of the way there towards completion and you can see it really starting to move.   Also got an update from the contractor on the Sargent Beach Jetty and Breakwater project:  With the hectic storm season last year and the one direct hit this year we have done and are doing additional survey out at the cut.(survey team is out there this week and now complete).  We have found as much as 300 ft of shoreline retreat down there.  With that in mind we are adjusting the final plans for the structures. Permit is on schedule. VERY pleased with progress. We believe we are still on target for 1 st  quarter of 2022 for bid and contracting.  Remember there is a GLO qualifications process for the contractors bidd

Lots going on that impacts our beach.  We didn't have as a bad hurricane season as last year which will help with the project for the jetty and breakwater project - but Nicholas did move the the start point again.  From Ernest Lawson who attends the commissioners meetings - " In this Monday’s Commissioners Court it was voted and passed that the County pay for another survey.  Pollard indicated this will take 4 days to complete the new survey.  The starting point at Mitchell’s cut is a moving target and was changed with Hurricane Nicholas.   The targeted start date is still January." AWESOME - we are getting close people - thank you Ernest for keeping track for us.  Beach Nourishment -  So they put in for the permit for beach nourishment but is it smaller than we were originally told.  It will go down to Mitchell's cut to the west but only up 1 mile to the east. Here is the Army Corps  link to the permit page - this was submitted October 2021  From the website - The p