Paine's Creek Landing Repairs 2010.01.16

This week the Brewster DPW hired a contractor to remove the broken asphalt from the beach, and put the large rocks on the west side back in place, then put sand in a berm along the north and west sides of the lot.

On Friday, Brewster DNR gathered staff and volunteers and a crew of AmeriCorp to fill and place 1,500 sandbags to further stabilize the bank and protect the landing.  Bags were tied and stacked around the boulders, and will be covered with sand to protect the bags.  In the event of another high tide storm event, they should provide some resistance to the erosion and help stabilize the boulders protecting the parking area.
1500 bags at 50 pounds a bag is 75,000 pounds, or a good 25 yards of sand.  Makes for a long day...

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Thanks to everyone on the sandbag crew; AmeriCorp, Brewster Health Department (Sherrie and son Ethan), Friends of the Punkhorn members, and the Brewster DNR staff.