Just curious, We go to Ocean Lakes every winter and they were working on the beach south of the CG. Wondering how far north they got and if anyone can post pictures. I am also wondering if they are going to put a high dune along all the CG's. I know a few of the CG's had a nice view from their sites and am wondering if that will be an option anymore.
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Renourishment to hit the beach in July / Hoteliers fear project will be bad for business
By Lisa Fleisher - lfleisher@thesunnews.com Posted on Tue, Apr. 29, 2008
Hoteliers in North Myrtle Beach, where the beach renourishment project will be taking place starting in July - amid the peak tourist season - are furious at planners on local and federal levels of the government, worried that the sounds and sights of big trucks and barges will drive people like Willis from the beach and their reservations.
But the hotels in Myrtle Beach have been spared. Because of a schedule shuffle, the contractor will start on the city's beaches in late August or early September, instead of spring through mid-summer as initially planned.
The renourishment project, which pumps sand from offshore onto the beach, has been done roughly every decade to keep the beach big enough for tourists and the coast strong enough for the high-rise buildings that line the coast. The cost of the $30 million project is being split among the state, federal and local governments.
The contractor, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. of Oak Brook, Ill., has already completed the stretch of beach in Garden City Beach. Earlier this year, the Army Corps of Engineers, which is managing the project, offered the contractor emergency work in a Mississippi River area that had been flooded.
So the company left town and will now come back to North Myrtle Beach in July, though local business owners want the project pushed until the fall, after the height of the summer tourist season.
"I'm right here on the ocean front on Ocean Drive trying to scratch a living out of the beach sand," said Harold Worley, a hotelier in North Myrtle Beach and an Horry County councilman. "Beach renourishment on these commercial beaches needs to be scheduled in off season. It's just common sense. It just needs to be done. Instead of them working to our schedule, we're having to work to their schedule. It's ridiculous."
The corps says the project cannot be pushed back because weather conditions in the winter make it more difficult or expensive.
The renourishment moves swiftly, staying on a particular part of the beach for only a couple of days.
But that's too many for some tourists. Worse, some may choose to avoid the Grand Strand entirely.
Brad Dean, president of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, said there is no evidence that the renourishment hurts business.
"The importance and benefits to the project can't be overstated but the timing is unfortunate," he said.
Worley disagreed.
"People just don't like to hear the beeping and the noise," he said. "They come to the beach to relax and you hear nothing but the waves splashing on the beach."
The Garden City area does have a problem, but IHMO, the main CG in the south area-Ocean Lakes, Lakewood, and Pirateland, should not be affected as much with the renovation.
Of course I have not been there since '06, but there is plenty of beach to enjoy in that area.
Cannot comment on the renovation in that area again since I have not been since '06-but-When I looked at Condo's in the Garden City area-at high tide there was no beach-but the main I mentioned have a nice beach area-hope this helps.
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It is being finshed this week at Ocean Lakes. The renourishment of the pumping of the sand has been completed. There is more area of sand on the beach, but at this time, there is also a steep drop off to the water. However as the tide comes in and out, it will continue to make the drop off smaller and smaller. This week they have been putting drain pipes in and are almost finished with this project.
Anyone have any idea how the beach at Myrtle Beach Travel Park will be affected? We're headed there in mid-August and won't be pleased if the beach isn't available.
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