Posted on February 23, 2020
A series of coastal engineering projects aimed at saving Waikiki Beach is underway, and one of the projects that kicked off three months ago is performing well so far.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said it is “very, very happy” with its 95-foot-long sand bag groin — made of 83, 10,000-pound bags of sand — installed in November to restore the coastline and slow erosion at Kuhio Beach.
“We developed a project in which we developed a small sandbag groin and then we took some sand and backfilled to stabilize that section of the beach where we were having an erosion hotspot,” said Sam Lemmo, of the DLNR Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands. “That project was completed several months and it’s been quite successful.”
But the $700,000 project comes ahead of an even bigger project to fix an erosion hotspot that will launch next month.
Source: coastalnewstoday.com
