21, 1970 24 Pages 10 Cents Keeping Inlet 4- R*& Open Will Cost "Study by PETE PEPINSKY News Staff Writer
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Intracoastal Waterway. • The work will cost $325,000, plus During 1967, when the inlet was closed and there were heavy rains, the $40,000 annually for dredging, ac- city's canals were overfull and drained slowly, according to the engineers. cording to Arvida and if the city is In contrast, there was a heavy rainfall during the dredging operations this willing to take on the job, Arvida will year and great volumes of runoff water rushed out through the inlet. kick in $50,000. In addition, the inlet serves as a pollution outlet for the Intracoastal The city has $108,720 in its Capital Waterway and canals which connect to it. The tides working through the Improvement Program for main- inlet flush out the Intracoastal at a point where it once was in danger of taining the inlet. The money was set becoming heavily polluted. aside several years ago following adoption of a report by the University of Florida which set up a three-phase I The Inlet Report: P. 6-7A maintenance program. The rest of the money, should the if Pirates and subs: the Inlet's colorful history city decide to undertake the project, would have to come from general it The struggle to keep the Inlet open: pictures and revenue sources. charts showing how it fills The possibility exists of federal or state funding for part of the project, •¥- Arvida's conclusions and recommendations in full. but the ownership of the inlet — a sticky legal questions — would probably have to be settled before made of who owns the submerged Mayor Tore Wallin this week. f *iier governments would contribute land. The inlet is constantly threatened Arvida President Brown L. Whatley with blockage by sand which flows ony. southward along the coast and is Arvida owns the land around the made the offer in a covering letter to an 11-page written report presented to carried inside the inlet by tides and / JMet, but no legal settlement has been wind. The report indicated that the inlet will remain unstable without constant Boynton maintenance and is subject to com- k plete blockage during heavy storm activity. i 197O JUNE man set The city has already gotten to work MW on the sandbar problem, hiring 12 3 4 5 6 Suboceanic Consultants Inc. of Tampa 8 9 10 11 12 13 to determine the properties of the bar, 15 16 17 18 19 20 for board to find out whether the bar can be done 22 23 24 25 26 27 away with, and at what cost. The >8~ 29 30 Unless there's a sudden change of consulting firm told the city that their mind, Walter Dutch, a Boynton Beach study would take 60 days after PROBLEM — Lighter areas around mouth of the The area extending from the mouth of the inlet shows realtor, will be appointed Monday to authorization, which was given at the inlet show how sand accumulates, drifts into the inlet. the vacancy on the Palm Beach County the rough dimensions of the outlying sandbar and its first of this month. This picture was taken at high tide on March 3, 1970. effects. Yoga? school board. The report said that reduction of the Dutch has been cleared by a group sandbar was an integral part of Another six-week round of of county Republicans who in- keeping the inlet clear. yogal lessons will get un- terviewed prospects for the position The water depth at the bar, which Nature's big sand machine derway Tuesday at 11:30 a.m., and has the green light from Gov. encircles the mouth of the inlet less conducted by Margaret Sit- Claude Kirk. than 300 feet out, is often dangerous for terlit at the Community Dutch heads a Boynton Beach real boats of two-foot draft or more. Center. estate and insurance firm. While the bar keeps some sand out of The vacancy arose when. Dr. A.D. the inlet, it also funnels some in and, is at the root of problem Thorp resigned in the middle of a more importantly, reduces the battle with Supt. Lloyd Early over the Quick facts flushing action of outgoing tides. The littoral (coastwise) ocean currents act like huge school budget and other school affairs. Arvida entered into an agreement erode the beaches on the south side. And the sand gets sand-transfer machines, and that's why coastal Florida pulled into the inlets. Not all of it washes back out with Weather: Fair through Sunday with the city on March 26,1969 in which cities have trouble with inlets filling in. with a chance of night and Kirk is expected, when he makes the the tides, and shoaling starts. the corporation agreed to dredge the Nature's huge sand operation begins with sand and silt morning showers. Low announcemtnet of the appointment, to inlet and maintain a navigable channel One way to avoid that is to build longer jetties. But that tonight 75, high Sunday 90. urge that Dutch and the other school running out of the riviers of the mid-eastern states and causes another sort of problem, naturalists say. It reduces 75 feet wide by six feet deep on an into the ocean. The southerly-running coastal currents Boating: Seas 2 feet, with board members get together with experimental basis. outbound tides' flushing and drainage effect. And it forces Early and try to iron out their dif- carry in toward Florida. the southward-running sand into deep water, where it variable winds 10 mph The purpose was to determine It's a big operation. At the Georgia- Florida line, as Saturday's tides High: 9:27 ferences. whether the inlet could be maintained settles and is lost for good. In doing this Kirk will be giving his much as 80,000 cubic yards of sand flows by in a year. p.m. Sunday's tides, High: navigably without an elaborate system The effect of jetties can be seen now in the Florida Keys 9:33 a.m. and 10:15 p.m.; tacit approval to the Early ad- of jetties and without a sand trap and Some of it makes Florida beaches. And when cities and other organizations build jetties, they catch more of it where the sand, flow has practically stopped because so Low:4:04 a.m. and 4:16 p.m. ministration, which has been under sand transfer equipment on the beach. much of those 80,000 cubic yards that come past the Fishing: Deerfield Pier reports severe fire. Thorp requested when he and, because of the flow, it builds additional beaches on Both the city and Arvida have been the northern side of the jetties. northern Florida line get stopped along the way. snook being pulled in by the resigned that Kirk remove Early. A seeking a permanent solution to the But the jetties also cut off the flow to the south side and dozens. Friday and Saturday, petition drive and other removal ef- constant filling of the inlet with sand Arvida considered, and rejected, extending the Boca 9 snook weighting between 16- forts are underway, but Kirk is ex- the currents swirl around them and erode the beaches on Raton Inlet jetty as a way to cure shoaling in the inlet. It ever since the Department of the Army the south side and the currents swirl around them and 20 lbs were caught. pected to stand with Early. ceased maintenance of the inlet in 1946 just won't work, their it's say. Television: Saturday at 9 p.m. on It is possible that Kirk will come to when it was no longer need for Air channel 5-7 "Tobruk" a war Palm Beach County next week, either Force crash boat operations at the end No relief yet drama about a handful of to make the announcement or after it, of World War II. allied soldiers crossing the to try to get the factions together. At a cost of approximately $143,000, dsert to Tobruk to blow up Kirk's appointee will have only a Arvida conducted two dredging German fuell supply bunkers. short term. Thorp's term expires in operations, engineering studies, Fed member sees The Helper Sunday at 7:30 p.m. on November, and a new school board soundings and inspections and kept a P.O. Box SBO channel 5-7 Walt Disney's districting plan goes into effect. Under photographic record of progress made Boca Raton "Run Light Buck, Run".