Sandals to build a JETTY on the 7 mile beach?

[rastagirl777]

Welcome to Negril.com TR.

RastaCrab - I look forward to hearing more about what you think based on your knowledge and experience. As someone who has an engineering background who also lives part time on the beach I am sure you are very interested in this project and its outcome.

I'd love to see another report done by someone without a vested interest in commerce there - like the NCRS for example, done by marine biologists and sand ecologists and the such. I read that there's actually been a proposed plan in the works regarding "fixing" the beach on Long Bay for several years. I'd love to see that plan.

[RastaCrab]

I'd love to see another report done by someone without a vested interest in commerce there - like the NCRS for example, done by marine biologists and sand ecologists and the such. I read that there's actually been a proposed plan in the works regarding "fixing" the beach on Long Bay for several years. I'd love to see that plan.

Not sure what "fixing" the beach implies. Beaches typically form where fresh water and ocean meet.

Getting another party to conduct a study will still involve engineering (ecologists and scientists may be tapped for specific information). The problem is who pays for that work - someone like Greenpeace? In the case of the USA, the money wins. I'm sure we will see the same in Jamaica whether it is for a small jetty and beach protection barriers or something really bad. Sandals has done the homework and from what I'm seeing so far, done it well. Now they have to sell it to NEPA and their neighbors.

[rastagirl777]

Not sure what "fixing" the beach implies. Beaches typically form where fresh water and ocean meet.

Getting another party to conduct a study will still involve engineering (ecologists and scientists may be tapped for specific information). The problem is who pays for that work -

Fixing is a broad term. Taking measures to prevent further beach erosion would be more specific.
As far as paying for a scientific study by a group that has no commercial interest in the beach - yeah, exactly - who pays for that. While the Sandals report does appear very well done and researched we must remember that Sandals payed for it. There are reports from Chevron and BP concerning the environment that also come off very "friendly".

[Jamerican Revelations]

Dear god, now a comparison of a sandals beach retaining project with the likes of an oil companies damage control.

[SweetSue]

I think the point is simply that it is not an "unbiased" report.