Posted on February 16, 2016
By James Fisher, delawareonline
The sand we spread our towels on in visits to the Delaware beach towns was once at the bottom of the sea, before engineers pumped it onto the shoreline in a wave of beach replenishment projects.
That work has gone on so long that scientists have acquired good guesses of just how much available sand is within the 3-mile line of the Delaware coast, in state waters — as well as how much could be used from federal waters more than 3 miles from shore.
Is it enough sand to keep rebuilding beaches in perpetuity?
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