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Monday, September 28, 1998
Volunteers try to rebuild dunes after Frances'
fury
QUINTANA, Texas (AP) - There are fewer sand dunes along the
Texas Gulf coast since Tropical Storm Frances. Nowhere is that
more evident than in Quintana, where the ocean has moved 50 to
100 feet farther inland, The Facts of Brazoria County reported
Sunday.
The ferocious storm was so powerful it completely blew away
some dunes standing 20 to 30 feet high in this town near Freeport,
about 60 miles southeast of Houston.
On Saturday, volunteers began rebuilding what took nature years
to build. By afternoon, tiny dunes formed with the help of bulldozers
stretched along the beach. Quintana and state officials are hopeful
these small ridges will become large sand dunes over time.
"This will help the beach heal itself," said Jamie
Mitchell, an adviser from the Texas General Land Offices dune
protection and beach access coastal division who assisted Quintana
residents with the dunes.
The problems is, there is not as much sand left to help the
beaches heal, Mitchell said. And there are no guarantees the sand
that remains there now will build up over time.
Mitchell, who has been on the road virtually every day since
the storm struck, says Brazoria and Galveston counties were the
hardest hit.
The ocean has encroached on such a vast area that now only
the narrowest strip of shore remains. In Quintana, beach the width
of a two-lane road is the only thing between the ocean and houses.
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