Quote Originally Posted by Brenngun View Post
I first started to read concerning articles about our voracious appetite for this naturally occurring item. I always knew we used a lot of it but wow the increasingly large annual volumes are starting to create havoc. We should be paying closer attention to this issue.

This OP-ED really started a search for more information for me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/op...ring.html?_r=0

Then this was an interesting article from last year.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...955669/?no-ist

More recently another OP-ED that things are getting worse not better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/op...ring-sand.html

As you would expect both sides are lining up in this one. Anybody concerned?
Where I live, as you know I'm sure, we've had our beach recede terribly in past decades, only in the last 20-25 years has some serious effort been made to recapture much of the lost beach area and clean up the water to International Blue Flag status...water now is usually better quality than most of cottage country.

But we'd lost significant portion of the beach in the 70s and 80's...now with the massive effort that was undertaken...it's beauty has been restored.

Great article, "beach nourishment" - great phrase....