re: Biloxi before sand was pumped in to create the beach

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That’s fricking cool

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Same process was used just 2 years ago to rejoin East and West Ship Islands, which were originally divided from one island into two by Hurricane Camille. Just before Hurricane Katrina, they had almost grown back together by the natural east to west littoral drift of sand, but Katrina screwed that up.

January 2005:


November 2014:


In 2019, a major dredge operation re-connecting the islands was completed:


The same process has also been used for island rebuilding of Cat Island, and Deer Island just off the coast of Biloxi. Dredged fill from the Pascagoula Ship Channel off the western tip of Petit Bois Island has been used to create a new island in between Horn and Petit Bois Islands, called alternately Sand Island, Spoil Island (or as the NPS now refers to it, W. Petit Bois Island).