This Summer Haven River project has wasted millions of dollars of tax money since 2008, with no end in sight and the project failing before the latest hurricane even arrives.
Thanks to photojournalist Walter E. Coker and SAPWB District Commissioner Sandra Flowers for raising our consciousness about this potential waste, fraud, abuse, misfeasance, and malfeasance by an agency that has no staff, only contractors.
Elected St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach Commissioner Sandra Flowers and photojournalist Walter E. Coker are both environmental heroes.
Thanks to both of them for blowing the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance by the unaccountable contractors hired by the St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District for the controversial Summer Haven River project.
Enough flummery, dupery and nincompoopery.
It's our money.
From First Coast News:
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Video: video by Walter Coker
Waves breach sand dunes well ahead of Dorian's impact
A multi-million dollar sand placement near Crescent Beach has already been breached by pounding ocean surf.
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla — The ocean broke through newly placed sand dunes in Summer Haven just weeks after St. Johns County completed the multi-million dollar project.
Video captured at least a day ahead of Dorian's expected impact reopened a wound that has cost millions but has not sealed the breach.
The dunes that separate the ocean near Crescent Beach from the historic Summer Haven River was first breached during a tropical storm in 2008.
In 2016, state funding backed a community effort to remove sand from the river and place it onto the beach, rebuilding the dune system.
When Hurricane Matthew hit, however, the dunes were breached again. The state and county patched it, but the water broke through again in early 2018.
Monday, it happened again. Video shot by resident photographer Walter Coker shows the ocean rushing through the gap days ahead of what is expected to be a strong hurricane storm surge.
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