From the Falmouth Enterprise · January 19, 2024 · By Gilda Geist
After the December and January storms, Falmouth’s beach committee reviewed before-and-after drone surveys from the town’s consultant. The west end of Menauhant Beach lost one to three feet of sand, and its rebuilt dune lasted less than a month; a parking lot there was closed because water reached the pavement. Bristol Beach narrowed sharply, Surf Drive flooded and lost dune vegetation, and overwash carried water and sand into Green Pond.
The town’s beach nourishment budget of $25,000 buys only about 700 cubic yards of sand, and the committee chair sought at least $100,000 more. The committee also backed hiring a coastal resiliency director, proposed in the next budget, and a state-funded Surf Drive nourishment study. The storms illustrate the growing pressure on the low barrier beaches that front Falmouth’s south-coast estuaries.
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