Beach renourishment Pinellas County Florida

[Uechi]

Great news almost all,of the beaches in Pinellas County are to be given the gift of millions of tons of newly dredged sand. Almost impossible to,find anything old already because of sanded in beaches. The renouridhment will insure slim pickings for beach and water hunters until the next major hurricane.

Renourishment starts this month.

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

Pinnellas county, my winter retreat. Thanks for the heads up. It HAS been slim pickings at the beaches I've been at. I've really not found much since I was in Mexico during February, that was great. I'm ready to pull out one of my PI's hoping for something further out from shore than I can go with my Equinox w/out waterproof cans. I'll still keep trying until this snowbird heads north. At least the weather has been great as I learn the Equinox.

 

[Des D]

The re-nourished Longboat Key beaches in Sarasota/Bradenton (Manatee Co) a few times years ago.
I was on the beach as the watery sand mix was being pushed around by huge CAT's.
What it brought in were huge amounts of shell casings around 7" in length fired during practise in WW2.

 

[dewcon4414]

Seems like they did that just about 3 years ago from ST Pete to Venice. They keep bringing that sand in from way out there ..... really fine stuff and it stays until the first few good blows. They need to us some stuff from in land then put sand over that or it just ends up in the water moving SOUTH. Been quite a few years now since we seen cuts near shore. Sand keeps piling up on the outter sand bar........ moving toward the beach.... and of course nada in that sand. Even the troughs that used to be there have filed in. Discourage a lot of hunters....... and they now hunt summer or spring break periods looking for recent drops..... and its a scramble for those with being 3 shifts..... morning, afternoon, and night.

 

[Mark kus]

Man thank God they don’t do that here in my state the beach near my home is so old and they
Don’t rake it ever so after every storm I find old uncovered coins!

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

Looks like they are about to start on Treasure Island - perhaps today according to the local news this a.m.
The biggest public beach in the CT state parks system has undergone this process during the winter. Much of the material spread on the beach was dredged from the mouth of the Housatonic River then sent by barge to Hammonassette ST park beach. I think they have previously just pumped sand from offshore. Too bad as Hammo was a great place after storms for old finds. The material brought in by barged greatly changed the beachscape in and out of the water.
Well I'll be heading out well north of treasure island today. Pickings are sparse so I'll be getting out in the deeper water with a PI.
Have a great day!

 

[Uechi]

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