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Re: Seaweed at OBBR/Mr. Busby's
[Re: CaribJoe]
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01/12/2016 04:13 PM
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CaribJoe said: Anyone know what the seaweed situation is presently? I am an owner at OBBR and recently received the "2015 year end report". In the report it discusses the issue with the Sargassum seaweed intrusion. Here is a portion from the letter: "Pearl Development hired a team of experts to closely study the phenomenon...The proposed solution entails the emplacement of floating containment booms in Oyster Bay approximately 1,000 ft off of the beach. Pearl believes that when coupled with a removal pump, the booms will be effective in alleviating most of the influx and make our beach enjoyable for swimming and lounging....Pearl expects to be able to deploy the booms and removal pump by March 2016". Glad to see they are taking a proactive actions.... no word on the expected cost or likely increase in maintnance fees to cover the new expense.
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Re: Seaweed at OBBR/Mr. Busby's
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01/12/2016 06:31 PM
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january said: ...booms in Oyster Bay... That doesn't seem right. I would think that the booms would be out in the water off Dawn Beach since that is where the problem is. What do you think the water is called in front of Dawn Beach??? That is Oyster Bay, perhaps you are thinking of Oyster Pond?
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Re: Seaweed at OBBR/Mr. Busby's
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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01/12/2016 06:42 PM
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SXMScubaman said: Wonder if that accumulation will eventually find its way to another nice beach? Supposedly that is what the removal pumps are for, removing the accumulation. The seaweed already impacts other beaches on SXM, other Caribbean island and the Mexico coast from Cancun to south of Playa.
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Re: Seaweed at OBBR/Mr. Busby's
[Re: kish]
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01/12/2016 06:48 PM
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kish said: There were already some booms there in November, but they were not doing a very good job.... they need to be extened further along the beach. Hope that is what they intend to do. We were there for two weeks Nov/Dec also. You are right, they didn't seem to be effective, however we were told that they were looking to put them further out, run a longer section and add the pumps. At the time we thought it was "just talk", but looks like they are going forward.
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