Soo...are reporters this bad? Is it that complicated to say why it doesn't reach? Maybe mention that actual tons of sand had been moved to push the sea front back. It's not that the water level went down or anything.
"Every pier I've been on, and I've been on a lot, they go all the way out there." I'm so glad for her clarification, I feel like I understand piers more completely now.
@@filmbuff000He would have said it funnier. “We would have the greatest pier! The greatest ever! It would go on forever! So great you’ll get tired of being great on it!”.
The real story is that St. Augustine Beach is back! If you're familiar with beach conditions at St. Augustine over the past few decades you will appreciate how large and beautiful the beach is today. It will continue to improve. I remember walking on this beach and dropping to a smaller area before reaching the water. The beach was disappearing. It's awesome now! They have done a great job.
@@JRM1371 There are not "miles of sand before you hit water". At high tide, it's a few feet. You can see the water line in the above video. The pier is not the major issue at St. Augustine Beach. The main concern has always been beach erosion especially south of the pier. In the recent past one would walk the beach south of the pier and be shocked that there was very little beach left. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done a breathtaking job restoring the beach. They will continue this massive project. I love the pier. However, it has been shortened through storms and other weather events several times since the 1930s. At one time it was almost twice as long as it is now. It can be lengthened in the future.
A bit of history of the area from the Florida DEP: In 1940, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged a new east to west channel through the barrier island at a location over two miles north of the natural inlet. In 1941, a short north jetty was constructed at Vilano Point north of the new channel. Described as a terminal groin in the Corps of Engineers’ design documents, the boulder mound structure stabilized the Atlantic Ocean shoreline immediately to the north yet allowed substantial sand transport into the inlet, which has created the large land mass south of the jetty (terminal groin) known as Porpoise Point. During the 1940’s, the severed land mass that was south of the new inlet channel merged with the intertidal shoals of the original natural inlet. This created what is now called Conch Island, which includes the ocean shoreline of the Anastasia State Park. The old inlet closed at its southern terminus leaving the lagoon now called Salt Run. In 1957, the USACE constructed a south jetty along the north shoreline of Conch Island. Today, the authorized federal channel is 200 feet wide to a depth of -16 feet Mean Low Water (MLW). The inlet’s throat, or narrowest section of the inlet, is roughly 1,000 feet wide. With continued southward transport of sand into the inlet through the north jetty causing growth of Porpoise Point, a portion of the inlet channel is being pushed southward against the south jetty. Between 1940 and 1986, 1,373,000 cubic yards of sand was dredged to maintain the federal navigation channel at the inlet with offshore disposal of the dredged material. In 1996, 170,000 cubic yards of maintenance dredging material was placed on the beaches to the south adjacent to the city of St. Augustine Beach. During the 1980s, a federal beach erosion control study was conducted for St. Johns County and determined that the navigation channel and inlet relocation had a negative impact on beaches to the south (USACE, 1991). The federally authorized St. Johns County Shore Protection Project, located south of the inlet between R137 and R150, was reauthorized in 1999 to include mitigation of the effects of the navigation project. Beach restoration was initially conducted in 2003 with the placement of 4.2 million cubic yards of sand between R132 and R151 (a length of 3.8 miles). Material was obtained from the inlet’s active ebb tidal shoal and channel. In 2005, following the impact of the 2004 hurricane season, an additional 2.8 million cubic yards of sand was dredged from the channel and ebb shoal, and placed between R137 and R151 (2.9 miles). Again in 2012, an additional 2.2 million cubic yards of sand was dredged from the navigation channel, the south lobe of the ebb shoal, and the inner harbor shoal borrow area adjacent Porpoise Point, and placed between R139 and R147. Roughly one fourth of the total material dredged, or 564,000 cubic yards, was obtained from the south lobe of the inlet ebb shoal.
@@calco5482 The Army Corps dredged a channel north of the beach and installed groins in the 1940s. This has stopped the natural flow of sand to the beach. They have been dredging the sand ever since and placing millions of cubic yards of dredgings since then to replenish the beaches.
Did you watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. So.....
What is this journalism? There was no explanation about what they did. Did they truck in sand? Did they dig a trench in the ocean? This seems like an utterly massive fascinating project they glazed over.
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
@@MindofMatter Nope..didnt watch it at all...I really dont give a shit why it doesnt reach the water!....Im just making fun of the climate change libtards!
Did you watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. So.....
Really ? You've been in FLA your entire life and this is the weirdest thing you have ever seen ? LOL this must be the first time you have left your home.
@@TheValidation honestly, yes. even though theres some new crazy bs everyday, a few things in life remain the same. this was one of them and now with all the hotels on the localside and everything being dug up, it just feels weird and wrong. been here 25 yrs and its still weird to see this
Classic terrible reporting. They implied but never actually said that someone went and moved all that sand from offshore back to the shore to restore the beach.
@@drivers99still don't make sense. Even recent history states that the beach will erode in a moment and if not over a short interval of time. This was an exercise in moving fish poop and spending money.
It's a waste of money. Natural ocean currents and storms will erode all that sand and move it some place else. Later, ocean currents and another storm will replace it. In 2013, the pier just barely made it just beyond the shoreline.
@@danburch9989 a communist scheme to waste money. How about we fix our bridges? That would be a good use of the money. And clearly, the ocean isn't rising. Was the pier under water before they brought in this sand? I'm sure they didn't build the pier under water at high tide...
Using Google Earth Pro, I can go back in time and look at old satellite pictures of an area. There has been virtually no beach there for at least fifty years, with the pier extending almost it's entire length out into the ocean. In 2013, 1,280 feet of the 1,300 foot pier extended beyond the shoreline.
I was a drummer in the Hapeville High School Marching One Hundred Plus marching band that played in the St Augustine 400 year birthday party parade in 1967. When we were there the pier went well out into the sea…🎉
Why do the comments read as though they didn’t even watch the video? They talk as if the water receded from the beach. Yet the reporter explained in very clear English that the government rebuilt the beach by shipping in sand. Damn ignorant people 🙄
I started noticing around the time of the ATF /Waco fiasco and OKC bombing. For years I thought I might be imagining it all but now in 2024 its just blatantly obvious.
@@thomasdearment3214 so first they put up jetty’s and then that fugs up the natural flow …. Then they got to fix it …. Typical Government Inaction….. They create a problem then they fix it only to create more problems
@@chrisk3 so it's the governments fault that land moved along coasts ? The only reason this beach and pier exist is because the government created it, Moron.
Monkeys dropping dead out of trees in Mexico due to heat, June was hottest month ever on Earth, but no, the deniers are the prisoners depicted in Plato's Allegory of the Cave. They just cant see the facts . Can you post some peer-reviewed published journal articles that back up your denial that the planet is not heating up? Doubtful . But in your defense, you are the prisoner in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
@@frey8725 "Why?" We have to protect the wealthiest's homes and $100 million condos. There will always be a beach, it's all a function of where. And the 99%'s taxes must pay to keep the beach safely in front of the top 1%'s homes
Somehow the sea level is just not rising in that spot. I don't know how that works but everywhere else it's up a lot. I mean Barack Obama's seaside Mansion is under 10 ft of water right?
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
They did this same thing about 2011. Piped the sand from a dredge working just inside the inlet. Was pretty amazing feat. Couple hurricanes and couple years later sand was gone and ocean was up to the seawall again.
It should be underwater you're using my taxpayer dollars that are coming from New York and California that support half the country with their tax revenue to build up your shoreline because you will be underwater if we don't do it which is what I would let happen
Actually this has nothing to do with any change in sea level. From the info in the video it appears to be a result of remediation efforts to reverse and prevent coastal erosion.
The problem with pumping sand onto the shore is the sand is from way out with a totally different microbiome, it can be damaging to the aquatic life that lives on the transition zone. Also sand moves like a liquid, so even when the sand is from miles out the ocean bed slumps back in and the beach erodes back to its original spot within a few years if not constantly maintained.
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
This totally bums me out! Myself and my wife have been going to St. Augustine since 1999. (Had a condo, 5 minutes from the beach) We now have a retirement home there now. And always loved seeing the Pier out in the water. We absolutely love St. Augustine Beach 🏖️! It’s the best of the best. I understand they are trying to improve the beach. Hopefully 🤞 they will extend the pier once more!
I went there and learned that the beach replenishment ruins the fishing. It puts a sandy silt coating on the plants and sponges etc and harms everything
@@EZ4U2Say11 beach replenishment involves a dredge pumping sand from deeper water onto the shoreline. Side effect is silting the water, covering the ocean floor with fine sand, over many months daily. Is that like a hurricane? Is that nature's design? Also replenished beaches are full of fine sand particles that would never usually be heavy enough to stay on shoreline so man made beaches are fragile to a hurricane or storm and wash away quicker than natural made beaches. Again causing silt. Yw
Same thing here at Dauphin island pier on the Alabama Coast..I caught many of Sharks and other fish off the pier in the 70.s 80.s and 90.s...Its a half a mile from the Gulf now...
Beaches are fluid... the move back and forth throughout the decades... and beach renourshment is very important ...especially in a hurricane prone state where one big storm can wipe out a beach
.... fed a lot of people, housing assistance for vets, repaying Social Security.... This is just throwing money into the ocean. When has man ever conquered nature? All man done is mess things up and then make excuses for the mess up. Example: Tire reef in Fort Lauderdale.
It is and it will. They are adding sand! 30 million dollars just for that little area. Try building the beach every place! Its nice to see it restored but we cant afford to furnish children with breakfast at school.
@@knickell50 i live in florida and a few years ago i watched them restore flagler beach and fix the road. as for breakfast i started school 65 years ago and no one was given breakfast or lunch for that matter. we did have lunch but we paid for it.
Back in the 60’s and early 70’s, A1A went through the State Park and you could drive under the Pier. The Pier went out further than it does now. I fished off of it a lot when our family was there on vacation. My parents would park their Motorhome on the beach. Lots of drivable beach then. A Couple of Hurricanes changed all of that and took out the Pier, twice. They had to reroute A1A around the Park as it is today. The land are has change many times throughout the years.
it is... some islands are already planning to evacuate and a capitol is being moved because of it. I mean why do you think the government is spending millions on beach refurbishments?
Let me explain it to you in a way you might be able to understand. Think of it this way. If you build the border wall it keeps drugs and immigrants out, the same goes for this. If you replenish the beaches it protects from erosion and storm damage. Dumping sand makes it higher than the sea level. Providing a natural barrier.
Thanks! If they add a reef, large rocks and some natural vegetation along the shoreline as part of the project, that should help keep a lot of the sand and may be save millions in costs in the future. May be they will build a new pier out over the ocean, because the current one looks older. A futuristic curved pier design would improve the look too. You can power pier lighting with wind power there since there’s so much of it available near the ocean. A lot of travelers come there and it would be nice!
Beach “replenishment”: an environmentally destructive attempt by man to create artificial beaches where Mother Nature has decided there shouldn’t be one.
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
For those with misled attention spans: The sand was brought in by the Army Corps of Engineers to act as a buffer against expected storm surge brought on by this year's longer and more intense hurricane season. They will need it.
Pretty much they could just build sea walls, sea walls more efficient and last longer than sands, this will wash away over time and mostly lost to ocean and water will be soon enough move up to the beach. This is just a temporary fix, a very costly one when they should directed the funds into better projects.
A million here, a million there and pretty soon you're talking real money. $30 Million dollars at a time, adds up. Of course, without the extra sand, the properties along that shoreline would be destroyed in the next big storm and the losses would be in 100s of millions.
I noticed that they were doing the same thing over here in Flagler Beach. I saw all sorts of movers and bulldozers and stuff moving sand around in Flagler beach just south of St. Augustine. The local I talked to had explained it to me and griped that they weren't even asked about whether they even wanted it.
Hope to make it there one day, have not yet managed to make it to the east coast, people think it is so easy to travel across the country, not so easy for some folks !
This cannot be true. The water lines on the pier pilings are far higher than the sand they allegedly put onto the beach. Its far more likely that the sea level has dropped or the local land has experienced upheaval. Sea level does not go down because you put some sand under the pier.
This makes me so mad as an avid pier fisherman. So many piers have been ruined by beach nourishment over the years. And most of the time all it does is quickly erode back into the ocean
Was the tide in, or out, during the video? It looks to me like one small storm will wash away the couple of feet depth of sand that is keeping the water from the pier.
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature. $30 million to bring sand into St. Augustine Beach seems a little bizaar. Will the sand still be there after the next high tide and winter storms ???
My question is where the hell did the water go 🤔 usually they put a wall up and then drain the water so it keeps it dry, that looks like the water has gone down and nothing is holding it back from coming back up?
This is not the first time they did so much beach renourishment that the St. Johns County pier didn’t reach the water. Give it two years, all the sand they added will be washed away and the water will be up to the sea wall again.
Now we can finally take that long walk on a short pier.😊
😂😂😂😂
Yep!
Nailed it😂
👍👍👍👍
Calling all dems, new facebook challenge.
Wait a minute I thought the icebergs were melting and all of Florida is going to be covered with water with global warming
You dumb? Obviously. Do some research before posting.
Al Gore said in 1999 that by 2008, half of Florida would be under water
….and he made himself a fortune by “protecting the planet”
I guess if your a public school graduate from New York, Massachusetts, Jersey, California you must be somewhat dumbfounded
They ADDED sand to the beach to stop erosion.
Remember when they said "half of Florida will be underwater by 2008"?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
I love Pepperidge Farm cookies!!!
😊😊
Beach renourishment. Look it up.
@@frey8725 Ah, yes. Adding sand to this exact half mile area saved the whole state from the fate they predicted...
they managed to halt that when they controlled the ozone layer hole
And if they don't keep building up the beaches with added sand Florida will be under water as the iceberg's melt do the global warming
Soo...are reporters this bad?
Is it that complicated to say why it doesn't reach? Maybe mention that actual tons of sand had been moved to push the sea front back. It's not that the water level went down or anything.
Reporters are just low level influencers. Just older and uglier.
Uhh they did explain what the reason was. Nobody said anything about falling sea level.
@utrak uhh, u see all the comments disbelieving in climate change bc they mistook this as natural?
@@xiongpaolee no worries then, due to your climate change it will reach the ocean in no time... You know because climate change is real and all that
They explained that sand was put down. People are just running with the title and not checking out the actual story
"Every pier I've been on, and I've been on a lot, they go all the way out there."
I'm so glad for her clarification, I feel like I understand piers more completely now.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@kingbradarmyI imagined your comment being spoken by Trump as it sounds like a statement he would have made
Well her accent and swimsuit are about all you need to see and hear to know pretty much her whole life story 😂
So much for climate change.
@@filmbuff000He would have said it funnier. “We would have the greatest pier! The greatest ever! It would go on forever! So great you’ll get tired of being great on it!”.
Can't wait for the follow-up story when they're talking about how much of the sand they put in washed away.
I can’t remember where I read this but sand is the most valuable building material going and the world is running out of sand.
@@fishmonger6879 just sand with a certain shape, not all sand
@@bradmettler4566 Just the shape that was used here.
Where did the sand go? Did it evaporate into outer space?
@@fishmonger6879 I don't know where you heard it either but it's wrong lol
A pier that doesn’t reach the ocean and the government was envolved what a shocker
Evolved?
Involved? Spellcheck is your friend.
And the county!
The water used to reach the pier, I was literally down there last year and the water was still at the pier.
I’m betting you didn’t hear but 10 words in the video. They explain every thing in it.
So just pull the ocean closer. Duh. 🙄
Underrated comment
Pull it closer? Must be a floridiot
@@patricialavallee8286 do NOT bring my sexuality into this! 😤
The real story is that St. Augustine Beach is back! If you're familiar with beach conditions at St. Augustine over the past few decades you will appreciate how large and beautiful the beach is today. It will continue to improve. I remember walking on this beach and dropping to a smaller area before reaching the water. The beach was disappearing. It's awesome now! They have done a great job.
@@ChuckRosseel yeah, they've done so well that you can walk out the whole pier and still have miles of sand before you hit water! 😂
@@JRM1371 There are not "miles of sand before you hit water". At high tide, it's a few feet. You can see the water line in the above video. The pier is not the major issue at St. Augustine Beach. The main concern has always been beach erosion especially south of the pier. In the recent past one would walk the beach south of the pier and be shocked that there was very little beach left. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done a breathtaking job restoring the beach. They will continue this massive project. I love the pier. However, it has been shortened through storms and other weather events several times since the 1930s. At one time it was almost twice as long as it is now. It can be lengthened in the future.
@@JRM1371piers are kinda lame tho
A bit of history of the area from the Florida DEP:
In 1940, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged a new east to west channel through the barrier
island at a location over two miles north of the natural inlet. In 1941, a short north jetty
was constructed at Vilano Point north of the new channel. Described as a terminal groin in the
Corps of Engineers’ design documents, the boulder mound structure stabilized the Atlantic Ocean
shoreline immediately to the north yet allowed substantial sand transport into the inlet, which has
created the large land mass south of the jetty (terminal groin) known as Porpoise Point.
During the 1940’s, the severed land mass that was south of the new inlet channel merged with the
intertidal shoals of the original natural inlet. This created what is now called Conch Island, which
includes the ocean shoreline of the Anastasia State Park. The old inlet closed at its southern
terminus leaving the lagoon now called Salt Run.
In 1957, the USACE constructed a south jetty along the north shoreline of Conch Island. Today,
the authorized federal channel is 200 feet wide to a depth of -16 feet Mean Low Water (MLW).
The inlet’s throat, or narrowest section of the inlet, is roughly 1,000 feet wide. With
continued southward transport of sand into the inlet through the north jetty causing growth of
Porpoise Point, a portion of the inlet channel is being pushed southward against the south jetty.
Between 1940 and 1986, 1,373,000 cubic yards of sand was dredged to maintain the federal
navigation channel at the inlet with offshore disposal of the dredged material. In 1996, 170,000
cubic yards of maintenance dredging material was placed on the beaches to the south adjacent to
the city of St. Augustine Beach.
During the 1980s, a federal beach erosion control study was conducted for St. Johns County and
determined that the navigation channel and inlet relocation had a negative impact on beaches to
the south (USACE, 1991). The federally authorized St. Johns County Shore Protection Project,
located south of the inlet between R137 and R150, was reauthorized in 1999 to include mitigation
of the effects of the navigation project. Beach restoration was initially conducted in 2003 with the
placement of 4.2 million cubic yards of sand between R132 and R151 (a length of 3.8 miles).
Material was obtained from the inlet’s active ebb tidal shoal and channel. In 2005, following the
impact of the 2004 hurricane season, an additional 2.8 million cubic yards of sand was dredged
from the channel and ebb shoal, and placed between R137 and R151 (2.9 miles). Again in 2012,
an additional 2.2 million cubic yards of sand was dredged from the navigation channel, the south
lobe of the ebb shoal, and the inner harbor shoal borrow area adjacent Porpoise Point, and placed
between R139 and R147. Roughly one fourth of the total material dredged, or 564,000 cubic
yards, was obtained from the south lobe of the inlet ebb shoal.
Thank you.
I need a summery
@@calco5482 The Army Corps dredged a channel north of the beach and installed groins in the 1940s. This has stopped the natural flow of sand to the beach. They have been dredging the sand ever since and placing millions of cubic yards of dredgings since then to replenish the beaches.
Excellent analysis… thx
Seems a bit inconvenient for certain world views
Yep 😆👍
Obviously you missed the part where they spent millions of dollars to dump tons of sand there.
Lol watch the video. They explained the investment to make this possible.
@@Cynthia_CantrellTrumpees hear only what they want to hear. Facts mean nothing to them.
Why is it inconvenient? Why do you think the beach is getting bigger? I'm really curious to know how your brain works, this is fascinating
Just give it till the end of hurricane season. Pier fishing will resume in November.
I thought hurricane season was over
Yep, they'll have to spend that $30 million all over again.
@@Kells-Cardinal😂😂😂 no
@@kittygumdrop7442 it's a line from pineapple Express . Thought someone would get the reference haha my bad
@@Kells-Cardinal
Hurricane season is June 1st-November 30th.
Al Gore having nightmares
The people are Saint Augustine have a nightmares. They have to do this renouncement every five years.
Gore is an unuseful idiot.
They purposely did this to literally combat climate change. So no he's sleeping well
@@easyb622Inconvenient truth.
The water is not receding. It’s called beach renourishment. Sand is added. Just go read about it.
I don’t think the glaciers melting is a problem
they are... if you know how the gulf stream works at least
but what do the glaciers melting have to do with beach refurbishment efforts?
did you even listen to the first 5 seconds of the video?
Propaganda apparently is
Did you watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. So.....
I can tell who you voted for in 2016 and 2020. And again in 2024.
What is this journalism?
There was no explanation about what they did. Did they truck in sand? Did they dig a trench in the ocean? This seems like an utterly massive fascinating project they glazed over.
OH NO! THE ICE CAPS ARE MELTING!
Oh no the dummies are commenting!!!
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
@@MindofMatter Nope..didnt watch it at all...I really dont give a shit why it doesnt reach the water!....Im just making fun of the climate change libtards!
Diaper Don crapped his pants AGAIN!! 💩💩💩💩
It’s almost like we can’t control the ocean levels
"GOD"
As you can see... we can. The sand was pumped onto the beach from offshore... creating a larger beach, causing the ocean to retract.
if you give the democrats all your money they can fix it
The gov are the master of tides now
They literally did, by adding sand to this specific beach. This was engineering.
"Wait..what"?
- Al Gore
Way to prove you didn’t watch the video
manbearpig
@@HiDefHDMusicway to prove you don’t have a sense of humor 🙄
Did you watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. So.....
@@mrswjr4061 Diaper Don crapped his pants AGAIN!! 💩💩💩💩
Really going to have to enforce that" No diving off the pier" rule.
Gravity will enforce it.
When I tell someone to take a long walk off of a short pier, this is the pier 😂
FL native here. I've never seen anything so bizarre in my life.
Must of been a Californians idea .... PLEASE DON"T MOVE HERE
Really ? You've been in FLA your entire life and this is the weirdest thing you have ever seen ? LOL this must be the first time you have left your home.
have u been outside?😂 Florida man is running loose😂
@@TheValidation honestly, yes. even though theres some new crazy bs everyday, a few things in life remain the same. this was one of them and now with all the hotels on the localside and everything being dug up, it just feels weird and wrong. been here 25 yrs and its still weird to see this
They do this at most beaches otherwise there would be no beach left
I thought the coastal areas were supposed to flood not recede
Classic terrible reporting. They implied but never actually said that someone went and moved all that sand from offshore back to the shore to restore the beach.
Well reality is different from what the biased people tell you
I’ll start to believe oceans are rising when Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and Jeff Bezos sell their beachfront properties
They say it 10 seconds into the video. “That’s because of a Federal project pouring 10s of millions of dollars into beach renourishment”
@@drivers99still don't make sense. Even recent history states that the beach will erode in a moment and if not over a short interval of time.
This was an exercise in moving fish poop and spending money.
It's a waste of money. Natural ocean currents and storms will erode all that sand and move it some place else. Later, ocean currents and another storm will replace it. In 2013, the pier just barely made it just beyond the shoreline.
It's called prolonging
@@danburch9989 a communist scheme to waste money. How about we fix our bridges? That would be a good use of the money. And clearly, the ocean isn't rising. Was the pier under water before they brought in this sand? I'm sure they didn't build the pier under water at high tide...
You need to build jetties to keep the sand from washing away.
Using Google Earth Pro, I can go back in time and look at old satellite pictures of an area. There has been virtually no beach there for at least fifty years, with the pier extending almost it's entire length out into the ocean. In 2013, 1,280 feet of the 1,300 foot pier extended beyond the shoreline.
I was a drummer in the Hapeville High School Marching One Hundred Plus marching band that played in the St Augustine 400 year birthday party parade in 1967. When we were there the pier went well out into the sea…🎉
Wouldn't that have been in 1965? The pier went well out into the sea before they dumped a lot of sand there over the past year.
Why do the comments read as though they didn’t even watch the video? They talk as if the water receded from the beach. Yet the reporter explained in very clear English that the government rebuilt the beach by shipping in sand. Damn ignorant people 🙄
So weird it's like governments and agencies tell us something and then the opposite happens
I started noticing around the time of the ATF /Waco fiasco and OKC bombing. For years I thought I might be imagining it all but now in 2024 its just blatantly obvious.
When did they tell you that they weren't going to artificially extend the beach?
@@esics8123 I figured the bridge would almost be submerged underwater. Due to cow farts.
@@NAC57 so you figured that pumping in sand to build the beach back up above sea level would cause the pier to be submerged in cow farts?
I highly doubt you even looked and listened to the report. If you did I don’t believe you’d have made that comment
Government sucks at everything they do
EVERYTHING!!!
I have a 21 foot surf rod. I can still hid the ocean from the there.
no, its a project to get the sand back and keep it from going away looks like it's working build a longer pier
@@thomasdearment3214 so first they put up jetty’s and then that fugs up the natural flow …. Then they got to fix it ….
Typical Government Inaction….. They create a problem then they fix it only to create more problems
@@chrisk3 so it's the governments fault that land moved along coasts ? The only reason this beach and pier exist is because the government created it, Moron.
Ask the CLIMATE CRIERS !
Monkeys dropping dead out of trees in Mexico due to heat, June was hottest month ever on Earth, but no, the deniers are the prisoners depicted in Plato's Allegory of the Cave. They just cant see the facts . Can you post some peer-reviewed published journal articles that back up your denial that the planet is not heating up?
Doubtful . But in your defense, you are the prisoner in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
Ask them what? Why the county went overboard with the beach renourishment? smh
@@frey8725
"Why?"
We have to protect the wealthiest's homes and $100 million condos.
There will always be a beach, it's all a function of where. And the 99%'s
taxes must pay to keep the beach safely in front of the top 1%'s homes
@@frey8725 everybody's taxes and hurricane relief rebuilds in the same spots too. Smh.
Lucinda, climate change is very real. You don't have to believe me. Watch the weather channel once in awhile...
How can this be? Sea level is rising at an unprecedented rate. LOL
@foghornleghorn8536 yada yada yada dumbass
@foghornleghorn8536 There is that Lunatic Left projection. Using ad hominem attacks prove who is intelligent and who is not!
@@stevematthews684nobody said anything about the left you're just paranoid lmao
Somehow the sea level is just not rising in that spot. I don't know how that works but everywhere else it's up a lot. I mean Barack Obama's seaside Mansion is under 10 ft of water right?
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
They did this same thing about 2011. Piped the sand from a dredge working just inside the inlet. Was pretty amazing feat. Couple hurricanes and couple years later sand was gone and ocean was up to the seawall again.
And we've been told Florida would be underwater by now 😂
If they didn’t do this renourishment every five years, it would have been underwater.
@@easyb622 I'm sorry that you are delusional
@@kennethsonier1766 delusional what am I lying about?
It will be underwater. It’s sand dredging you dummy.
It should be underwater you're using my taxpayer dollars that are coming from New York and California that support half the country with their tax revenue to build up your shoreline because you will be underwater if we don't do it which is what I would let happen
News: "Will you extend the pier as well?"
Army Corp of Engineers: "..... Oh sh--."
You guys know that the sand is going to erode away almost immediately right?
Can’t name one single pier that has been extended to make up for the loss in depth to beach nourishment. It’s ridiculous
Ocean levels lowering
Sure..8 billion Peeples..
The liquid of Humans..
Picked up the Excessive
Water's..
Actually this has nothing to do with any change in sea level. From the info in the video it appears to be a result of remediation efforts to reverse and prevent coastal erosion.
the earth grows, but not here, just human intervention
No, that’s not happening. Humans altered that beach, but mother nature will take it back in the next year or two.
@@vernonmcphee6746two magic words "coastal erosion"
The problem with pumping sand onto the shore is the sand is from way out with a totally different microbiome, it can be damaging to the aquatic life that lives on the transition zone. Also sand moves like a liquid, so even when the sand is from miles out the ocean bed slumps back in and the beach erodes back to its original spot within a few years if not constantly maintained.
I swear I remember hearing a chunk of Florida was going to be underwater like in 2008 ?
It is!!
Search for: _"See the devastating aftermath Idalia left throughout Florida"_ - CNN
Yeah Republican politicians like to lie a lot
Beachfront property in Tallahassee?
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
I'm sure you think you did now go get a life and an education idiot
The water is confused. It's supose to be rising sea levels
As are you. Watch the video.
Someone forgot to tell the water.
@@marcrigor6423 Someone didn't bother to read the post.
You know this makes you look dumb, right?
Meanwhile in Key West my waterfront boat dock on the canal is not 1 inch different than when it was built in the 1940’s
In the summer the beach sand builds back up.calm summer. Happens all over florida.a hurricane will wash away.
This totally bums me out! Myself and my wife have been going to St. Augustine since 1999. (Had a condo, 5 minutes from the beach) We now have a retirement home there now. And always loved seeing the Pier out in the water. We absolutely love St. Augustine Beach 🏖️! It’s the best of the best. I understand they are trying to improve the beach. Hopefully 🤞 they will extend the pier once more!
The next huge strom and all this nice sand will be gone...
I went there and learned that the beach replenishment ruins the fishing. It puts a sandy silt coating on the plants and sponges etc and harms everything
But a hurricane doesn’t mmmkay
@@EZ4U2Say11 beach replenishment involves a dredge pumping sand from deeper water onto the shoreline. Side effect is silting the water, covering the ocean floor with fine sand, over many months daily. Is that like a hurricane? Is that nature's design? Also replenished beaches are full of fine sand particles that would never usually be heavy enough to stay on shoreline so man made beaches are fragile to a hurricane or storm and wash away quicker than natural made beaches. Again causing silt. Yw
that is why they are doing it... they want to destroy everything... not joking... did you see the olypic abomination... obamination lol..............
Are you racist? Never question the way governments control the rise and fall of the ocean.
Same thing here at Dauphin island pier on the Alabama Coast..I caught many of Sharks and other fish off the pier in the 70.s 80.s and 90.s...Its a half a mile from the Gulf now...
Get longer line 👍
Beaches are fluid... the move back and forth throughout the decades... and beach renourshment is very important ...especially in a hurricane prone state where one big storm can wipe out a beach
Mainly move back. They have to re-nourish these beaches every five years or there will be no beach left
thats crazy talk according to noaa its the largest the beach has ever been in a hundred years. due to climate change and stuff
They had one a few years back
Piers are, like, supposed to like be in the water and stuff.
Damn that global warming and those melting ice caps … next thing you know…. Penguins 🐧 will be in Miami ! 😂
30 million could have fixed a lot of roads.
.... fed a lot of people, housing assistance for vets, repaying Social Security.... This is just throwing money into the ocean. When has man ever conquered nature? All man done is mess things up and then make excuses for the mess up. Example: Tire reef in Fort Lauderdale.
Our roads are looking newer every day here in polk county.
less than 30 miles, costs about a million per lane mile all told, 6 miles of a 3 lane with shoulders.
@@fastst1 he said fix roads not make new ones
@@PolPotsPieHole very true, but pothole repair is generally ineffective in the long term, best to shave, seal and resurface.
Incredible how many people don't watch a vid that they comment on.
I see it all the time then you try to state a fact or your opinion and they flag your comment for hate speech.
It's funnier this way 😂
Yeah, all the F'n dillholes talking about the ocean receding when all they did was raise the height of the beach by adding sand.
I'm amazed 😂😂😂
Erosion control and protection from storm damage are things they don’t understand apparently
i thought that the high water was going to take over big chunks of florida.
It is and it will. They are adding sand! 30 million dollars just for that little area. Try building the beach every place! Its nice to see it restored but we cant afford to furnish children with breakfast at school.
@@knickell50 i live in florida and a few years ago i watched them restore flagler beach and fix the road. as for breakfast i started school 65 years ago and no one was given breakfast or lunch for that matter. we did have lunch but we paid for it.
😂😂😂😂
LMFAO - I thought the oceans were RISING because of GLOBAL WARMING!?!
I thought the oceans were rising.....
It couldn't possibly be heavy equipment pushing sand out to extend the beach.....
makes you feel like they are lying to you
They are lying about everything
Have you tried turning it on and off again?
If you move one bucket of sand in Hawaii all the natives come out chanting. This is crazy.
lol!
Back in the 60’s and early 70’s, A1A went through the State Park and you could drive under the Pier. The Pier went out further than it does now. I fished off of it a lot when our family was there on vacation. My parents would park their Motorhome on the beach. Lots of drivable beach then. A Couple of Hurricanes changed all of that and took out the Pier, twice. They had to reroute A1A around the Park as it is today. The land are has change many times throughout the years.
"St. Augustine sand build-up leaves pier high and dry."
There - I corrected your clickbait garbage title.
🤔...... now that's different..... is the pier getting extended??....😕
technically... it's not a pier anymore!🙄
The catastrophic sea level rises really are really real. REALLY?
Those damn rising sea levels !!!
without them the gov wouldn't need to pour so much sand on there... so technically you can blame them, correct.
Tell me you commented after reading the title without telling me
You should start with getting an education and then a life
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They should have a project to extend the pier as well. That helps draw additional tourists to the beach as well.
Dismantle the pier and move on! That's all!
A new research team a Needed . Ah like 12 millions..A bargain..
i thought the ocean was rising cause cLiMaTe ChAnGe
it is... some islands are already planning to evacuate and a capitol is being moved because of it.
I mean why do you think the government is spending millions on beach refurbishments?
Let me explain it to you in a way you might be able to understand. Think of it this way. If you build the border wall it keeps drugs and immigrants out, the same goes for this. If you replenish the beaches it protects from erosion and storm damage. Dumping sand makes it higher than the sea level. Providing a natural barrier.
Sand fishing?
Thanks! If they add a reef, large rocks and some natural vegetation along the shoreline as part of the project, that should help keep a lot of the sand and may be save millions in costs in the future. May be they will build a new pier out over the ocean, because the current one looks older. A futuristic curved pier design would improve the look too. You can power pier lighting with wind power there since there’s so much of it available near the ocean. A lot of travelers come there and it would be nice!
I would love to know the actual reason as to what has happened.
Either the top commenters did not watch the video, or they have no idea what beach replenishment it.
Beach “replenishment”: an environmentally destructive attempt by man to create artificial beaches where Mother Nature has decided there shouldn’t be one.
I thought the sea levels were increasing at an alarming rate…?????
They Renourished the beach meaning THEY IMPORTED SAND TO THE BEACH. Are you guys really this stupid?
@@00700556 Are they that stupid because the sea levels are rising…rhetorical knucklehead…🤠🤘🏼
Did you even watch the video to learn WHY it doesnt reach it? HINT: it is NOT because sea levels are dropping. In fact, the opposite is why they had to add sand (with your and my tax money and good reason) to prevent flooding FL. I promise you won't have to read anything, just listen to it.
Did you? Is that really what you think? Idiot.
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But But But…rising sea levels.
Every pier I been on go all the way out there too! 🙃
For those with misled attention spans: The sand was brought in by the Army Corps of Engineers to act as a buffer against expected storm surge brought on by this year's longer and more intense hurricane season. They will need it.
Pretty much they could just build sea walls, sea walls more efficient and last longer than sands, this will wash away over time and mostly lost to ocean and water will be soon enough move up to the beach. This is just a temporary fix, a very costly one when they should directed the funds into better projects.
wait...but sea levels are rising...lmao
This is why we have a 34 trillion dollar deficit
….
A million here, a million there and pretty soon you're talking real money.
$30 Million dollars at a time, adds up.
Of course, without the extra sand, the properties along that shoreline would be destroyed in the next big storm and the losses would be in 100s of millions.
35 trillion🤣
@@jimhofoss9982 That was yesterday.
I noticed that they were doing the same thing over here in Flagler Beach. I saw all sorts of movers and bulldozers and stuff moving sand around in Flagler beach just south of St. Augustine. The local I talked to had explained it to me and griped that they weren't even asked about whether they even wanted it.
Would it be beneficial to extend the pier, out further before all the sand is washed away again?
Is it in yet?
Basically me and my wife
Wife: You in?
Me: Almost…
My wife - " that's not it! " 😂
See! Proof that the oceans are rising!
If you build it they will come! Needing an extension I’m guessing!
Hope to make it there one day, have not yet managed to make it to the east coast, people think it is so easy to travel across the country, not so easy for some folks !
So......How long has the pier been there? Because I doubt it is new and I doubt that erosion made it so water reached the pier.
How did they make the water level so much lower than those steps he was standing next to tho?
This cannot be true. The water lines on the pier pilings are far higher than the sand they allegedly put onto the beach. Its far more likely that the sea level has dropped or the local land has experienced upheaval.
Sea level does not go down because you put some sand under the pier.
This makes me so mad as an avid pier fisherman. So many piers have been ruined by beach nourishment over the years. And most of the time all it does is quickly erode back into the ocean
Damn it global warming...
Only bad thing is that the sand that gets pumped in is always full of broken shells.
The sand that was already there is full of broken shells, and crabs, and broken bottles, and trash, and plastic ...
Support a democrat and it can be full of broken promises and broken dreams as well.
@@outkast187 Don't you have a wall to build somewhere? Don't forget, get Mexico to pay for it. Smuck.
Was the tide in, or out, during the video? It looks to me like one small storm will wash away the couple of feet depth of sand that is keeping the water from the pier.
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
$30 million to bring sand into St. Augustine Beach seems a little bizaar.
Will the sand still be there after the next high tide and winter storms ???
Ok so extend it?
Make America bigger!
Might as well dump the tax dollars in the ocean.
I guess the under water aliens are drinking away the ocean 🤷🏻♂️🤣
The renourished the beach meaning THEY IMPORTED SAND TO THE BEACH. Are you guys really this stupid?
I was merely poking fun at it
Here's a question.
When has the sand been that far out?
Global warming and sea level rise huh 😅
St Augustin is Florida's prettiest beach town.
My question is where the hell did the water go 🤔 usually they put a wall up and then drain the water so it keeps it dry, that looks like the water has gone down and nothing is holding it back from coming back up?
I wonder how much money it will take to extend the pier
Wow wish they did this here in the UK I know a stretch of Norfolk coast in dire need of protection
I can't see how that makes the ocean further away.surley the more sand you put in the water the higher the water level will be???
Excellent. Extend the pier
Did they figure out how to lengthen the pier to go to the water or will we wait another two decades?
This is not the first time they did so much beach renourishment that the St. Johns County pier didn’t reach the water. Give it two years, all the sand they added will be washed away and the water will be up to the sea wall again.