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re: Biloxi before sand was pumped in to create the beach
Posted on 4/28/21 at 4:35 pm to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 4/28/21 at 4:35 pm to TeddyPadillac
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is there's so much beach that you can always find a spot to go where there aren't alot of people, but i think it's been getting busier and busier each year, especially closer to the casinos.
We've actually been going between BSL and Waveland lately (closer to the Silver Slipper casino). It's a closer drive, and it's much less crowded. There seems to be less clay/mud in the water too.
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Posted on 4/28/21 at 4:38 pm to BRich
I wasn’t implying the spillway opening was related to murkiness...just oyster health. A big oyster guy I know said he had to send his boats west of the Mississippi to keep them working, so I guess it just effects the beds on this side of that divide.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 5:34 pm to jamboybarry
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How did they pump the sand in?
With a pump
My uncle was one of the civil engineers on that project.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 5:41 pm to Topwater Trout
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I have never been to the beach there....so are the steps still there? any current pics?
No, there is a beautiful white beach. They typically bring in sand that they dredged out of Florida.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:04 pm to Spankum
I wish they had a really good beach now then maybe everyone wouldn't come to Orange Beach. Traffic is terrible already here.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:41 pm to OBTIGER 1
Is it me or was the water at Orange Beach a lot more Pensacola-like in the 90s? It seems every time I go to OB lately, the water is getting murkier. Maybe I am going right after a lot of rain hits the Perdido River.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:56 pm to Spankum
Can we get some of that sand down to Holly Beach?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:02 pm to fr33manator
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Never knew that. How did they pump the sand in?
Sand pump
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:00 am to LSUneaux
It usually is after some heavy rains. Also Mobile Bay has been really bad lately with all the rivers going into it. The Bay then leads into the Intercoastal waterway that goes into Wolf Bay and around to the Bay by Perdido Pass. That's where I live but it was nice this past weekend when we were out.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:24 am to Shexter
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Personally, I find Biloxi/Ocean Springs/Bay St. Louis beaches to be a GREAT day trip from the Baton Rouge area.
Especially with kids, they can play out in the water with no threat of getting swept away by the surf.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:27 am to BRich
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Gross. If you're going to go to the beach in Mississippi go to Ship Island. That's a pretty beach.
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Go out to the islands (especially Ship, Horn, and Petit Bois, on the beach side) and you can get nearly Destin-like waters.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:36 am to The Boat
The cabins at Lake Palourde in Morgan City were built on sand that was pumped from the lake. It was pretty cool to it being built up
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:39 am to BRich
More pix of your good looking wife please. Thx
- Everyone on the OT
- Everyone on the OT
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:45 am to idlewatcher
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More pix of your good looking wife please. Thx
- Everyone on the OT
Not gonna lie.. I knocked one out to that.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 11:02 am to TheHarahanian
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There's just a lot of clay in the water
Clay with bits of corn.
Sounds like my turds
Posted on 4/29/21 at 12:07 pm to tigers25
They did what's nearly the opposite at Folly Beach, on beautiful Lake D'Arbonee, in Farmerville. It used to be a nice man made beach.
Now it has parking and an area where boats can pull up.
Folly Beach Development Facebook page
Now it has parking and an area where boats can pull up.
Folly Beach Development Facebook page
Posted on 4/29/21 at 12:27 pm to tgrbaitn08
That’s fricking cool
Posted on 4/29/21 at 5:33 pm to fr33manator
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That’s fricking cool
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).
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