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what a wild ride five months after the
Cyclone called Sandy hit New York they
opened the other Cyclone the roller
coaster at Coney
Island we have here something that shows
the resilience of New York anybody who
doubts that New York wouldn't come back
bigger and better and stronger after
Sandy well we've erased those doubts
today
with the great reopening of Cony Island
and Luna Park Democrat Chuck Schumer is
New York's senior senator while he was
speaking the US Army Corps of Engineers
was gearing up to bring back the beach
at Coney Island a $48 million project
paid with Federal funding Hurricane
Sandy stole more than 1.5 million cubic
yards of sand from this beach we're
we're beginning a project that
ultimately will replace 3.5 million
cubic yards of sand it's called Beach
nourishment it is widely used all over
the country in places where Rising seas
and subsiding land threaten beaches it
is an effective but temporary way to
protect Coastal property and preserve
sunny days at the beach Dan fault is
project manager with the core of
engineers New York District we could
basically fill 2 and a half empire state
buildings with the amount of sand we're
going to place in this 5 Mile Stretch
the scale is large but the concept is
simple a dredging barge anchors near a
good source of sand offshore and pumps
it onto the
beach bulldozers spread and smooth
things
out this sand right now is being pumped
from 3 miles away through pipe submerged
underwater and basically pumped onto the
beach it picks it up off the the bottom
of the ocean and it's pumped in a slurry
and bulldozers move it around and and
place it to the proper grade Coney
Island is where it all began the first
Beach nourishment project ever happened
here in the early
1920s but will they be pumping sand on
this beach 90 years from now it is a
matter of charting the high cost versus
the benefits the curves start going like
this where the costs go way up the
benefits start coming way down but we do
have 25 30 years to make those decisions
Joe vitri is the director of the core's
National Planning Center of expertise
for Coastal and storm risk management
you have to be able to adapt to this
very changing uh future scenario um so
bottom line for for us is to think about
it is it makes a lot of sense to put
sand on the beach and the rockaways
right now it makes a lot of sense to
look at providing protection both on the
bay and the ocean side right now but I
would not suggest to you that 30 years
from now or 35 years from now that that
might still make a lot of
sense