Nov 5, 2007 7:40 pm US/Eastern
Ft. Lauderdale's Beaches Battered By Noel
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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Tropical Storm Noel caused beach erosion along Ft. Lauderdale's fame beach.
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Now that the rain and high winds from Tropical Storm Noel are nothing but a memory for South Florida, some cities are still dealing with its aftermath.
Over the weekend, the City of Ft. Lauderdale shutdown a stretch of A1A so crews could use bulldozers to push sand that had blown over the sea wall onto the road and sidewalk back onto the beach.
By Monday morning they had managed to push it into large piles on the beach side of the seawall where it will act as a barrier until the rough seas subside.
"It's usually very flat, it's usually not tilted, there are no dunes normally," Ricki Silverman told CBS4's Ted Scouten who was walking on the beach Monday afternoon. "Usually the sand is on the beach, not the street."
Some residents are even concerned about their beaches.
"The beaches are eroding away, pretty soon we won't have any beach," said Gus Kapakos. "Fort Lauderdale's known for its beautiful beaches."
It will then be spread back over the sand area to create the picturesque beach known worldwide.
Other areas of concern for Broward County managers for severe erosion are the southern section of Port Everglades, John Lloyd Park and Dania Beach.
In the last three years, the county has spent more than $44-million to shore up nearly 7 miles of beach front by dredging sand from offshore and building up the severely eroded areas.
CBS4's news partners at the Miami Herald report Miami-Dade's beaches fared quite well with only some erosion near 29th Street and in the Fontainebleau area near 44th Street.
The county plans to spend $17 million to bring in sand from Central Florida to replenish the hardest hit areas.
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