Some not happy with beach renourishment efforts in the Town of Palm Beach

Alesse Kopf at the Palm Beach Daily News (aka, The Shiny Sheet) has this story titled, "Some question quality of Midtown sand renourishment":

     “I have a report from an independent lab that says the sediment is much finer than what the consultant is saying,” said Root Trail resident Connie Gasque. “I think we’ve been lied to here.”
     Coastal engineer Karyn Erickson, a consultant for the Coalition to Save Our Shoreline, took sand samples from Reach 3 in late January and sent them to engineering firm Ardaman & Associates Inc. to test.
     The lab found that 93 percent of the sand directly discharged onto Reach 3 tested smaller than 0.18 mm, according to Erickson’s firm. About half of the dredged sand mixed with existing sand on the beach tested smaller than 0.25 mm, the mean grain size required through the state Department of Environmental Protection Beach Management Agreement.