City gets FEMA grant COMMUNITY 15 IslandVibesIOP.com embers of Wild Dunes Yacht Club from Isle of Palms enjoyed a fall cruise in late September. Captains and crew boated up the Intracoastal Waterway into Winyah Bay and up the Sampit River to Harborwalk Marina in Georgetown. The purpose of the boating club is to encourage safe boating in all its forms, promote skills of seamanship and navigation and enjoy the social and educational opportunities provided by the organization. A docktail party the first night gave everyone the opportunity to mingle and meet new members. The following day the boaters met for lunch at the Wacca Wache Marina on the Waccamaw River in Murrells Inlet. The club's spring cruise will be to Beaufort to attend the Air Show at the Marine Corps Air Station. The highlight of that event is a flight exhibition by the Navy's renowned Blue Angels. Wild Dunes Yacht Club throws ‘docktail’ party By Pam Marsh LET’S EAT, DRINK AND JOIN US FOR A THANKSGIVING DINNER NOVEMBER 28 SEATING AT 2:00, 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. RefugeIOP.com Reserve your spot today! Give Thanks and president of Coastal Science & Engineering in Columbia, added that beach nourishments have been even more critical in recent years because island erosion has “outpaced natural sand flow.” “South IOP, south Wild Dunes and north Wild Dunes are currently the most eroded areas – we’ve lost about 100,000 cubic yards of sand in these three sections every year from 20082018,” Traynum said, adding that the east end of the island has lost about “254,000 cubic yards of sand per year since 2018.” That’s an equivalent volume of approximately 78 Olympic-size pools. “Given enough time, nature could severely and permanently erode much of the island’s central and eastern areas,” Traynum said. It’s a concern facing U.S. cities along the entire East Coast, including Boston, New York, Baltimore, Norfolk and Charleston, which NASA’s Earth Observatory has named as one of the fastest sinking cities (about 4 millimeters per year) in the eastern U.S. All of which means that for Isle of Palms and all of Charleston County, current strategies to control flooding and the money needed to implement them could very soon go hand-inhand with all future development. “We are not saying don’t develop at all – we are saying to develop wisely, carefully, sensibly, given the current and future flood risks,” said Dale Morris, former head of resilience and sustainability with the City of Charleston, and co-author of a 2019 report that assessed the region’s flood risks. “Those risks are not going to decrease. We have a bias: to work with the natural and ecological systems that are here. If you ignore them, Mother Nature eventually will win.” From Page 3 M
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