Officials plan to take temporary measures to help prevent further erosion
on the western end of Anegada and at Keel Point after a visit to the sister island to assess the damage caused by a swell associated with Hurricane Sandy last week.
“The impact to the coastline was pretty significant,” said Department of Disaster Management Director Sharleen Dabreo.
Officials from the DDM, Conservation and Fisheries, the Survey Department, and Town and Country Planning went to Anegada Oct. 31, Ms. Dabreo said. They visited the West End Cottages there and found that even after a recent stabilisation project, there was damage to three of the six villas, she added.
“The sustaining works weren’t sufficient to permanently stabilise those structures,” Ms. Dabreo said. She added that geo-textile bags already had been filled with sand and placed in the area, and that government will take similar steps soon.
But the problem of erosion on Anegada is not due solely to recent storms. The island’s sandy surface naturally shifts with the sea, a process that has been ongoing as long as surveyors have records, she explained.
See the Nov. 8, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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