Dunes keep beach intact

By Beaches1 on Friday, September 6, 2019
  • A storm surge of more than 5 feet and heavy winds created choppy conditions offshore of Neptune Beach Sept. 4 as Hurricane Dorian passed by. A few power outages and some downed trees were reported from the storm, which had prompted an evacuation order on Labor Day for the Beaches. Few people evacuated, according to officials. (photo by Harriet Pruette)
    A storm surge of more than 5 feet and heavy winds created choppy conditions offshore of Neptune Beach Sept. 4 as Hurricane Dorian passed by. A few power outages and some downed trees were reported from the storm, which had prompted an evacuation order on Labor Day for the Beaches. Few people evacuated, according to officials. (photo by Harriet Pruette)
    Shore protection projects kept the shoreline safe during Hurricane Dorian. Coastal engineer Kevin Bodge, who oversees shoreline protection for Duval County, said Sept. 5 that he assessed nine miles of shoreline here and found everything “looks really, really good.” There was no erosion to the dunes and all the sea oats – planted in the dunes to prevent erosion – survived, ...

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