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Beach project fiasco in US provides lesson for 7MB

Beach project fiasco in US provides lesson for 7MB

| 12/03/2024 | 86 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government may want to rethink plans to spend CI$21 million on imported sand to replace parts of Seven Mile Beach in front of some of the islands’ most expensive real estate after a half-million-dollar sand dune project in Massachusetts took just three days to wash away. Although the Department of the […]

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Costly beach replenishment project still in the works

Costly beach replenishment project still in the works

| 20/09/2023 | 67 Comments

(CNS): The proposal to replenish the sand on parts of Seven Mile Beach is going through the business case process, Lands Minister Juliana O’Connor-Connnolly revealed in parliament Tuesday. Funding for the controversial plan to replenish the southern end of Seven Mile Beach between the Marriot hotel and Dart’s private house, which will cost more than […]

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