Boyds Untethered #39


The 30 blocks of beach between the 61st St and 91st St piers was created in 2015… using sand that the Army Corps of Engineers had dredged from the Galveston Shipping Channel.

The beach in front of that section of the seawall had eroded away decades ago, leaving only the granite blocks that had been placed there by the Corps of Engineers to protect the base of the seawall.

At the time it was the single largest amount of sand, 750,00 cubic yards, ever deposited on the beaches of Galveston.

This summer the Corps of Engineers we’re back to add some more of that dredged sand to that same stretch of beach in order to give us a bigger beach. 

That project ran 24hrs/day, 7 days/week for 4 months. 

Here, the work crews are offshore to remove the underwater piping that had been used to pump the sand ashore from the ship that dredged it out of the shipping channel and then brought it to us. 

As you can see that work was supervised by a committee of shore birds… and I’m sure more than a few of us beach bums.


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