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HOW DEEP A HOLE WAS.DUG, IT WOULD FILL IN WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES, AND HE <br />DID NOT FEEL THE BULLDOZER HAD ANY OTHER BAD EFFECTS, MAYOR KELLEY IN- <br />FORMED THE BOARD THAT HE ASKED THE CORPS FOR PERMIT AND GOT A VERBAL <br />PERMIT BUT HAS SO FAR BEEN UNABLE T6 GET A PERMANENT PERMIT. HE STATED <br />THAT IN FEBRUARY THE CORPS BROUGHT IN A MARINE BIOLOGIST WHO SAID THEY <br />WERE DESTROYING -THE OYSTER BEDS, BUT HE FELT THIS WAS A LIE. THE CORPS <br />ALSO CLAIMED THE BULLDOZING RESTORATION WAS INEFFECTIVE AND PLACFTI A CEASE <br />AND DESIST ORDER ON HIM ON APRIL 4TH, WHICH HE IGNORED AND RAN THE BULL- <br />DOZER HIMSELF IN DEFIANCE OF THE CORPS, HE CONTINUED THAT HE HAS PER - <br />S . UADED <br />ER-SUADED THEM TO GIVE HIM A HEARING ON HIS HOME GROUNDS .JUNE LOTH AND HE <br />HOPES TO PUT ON A REAL "HOLLYWOOD SCENARIO." MAYOR KELLEY THEN PRESENTED <br />THE BOARD WITH "BEFORE AND AFTER" PICTURES OF THE OCEAN -CITY BEACHES AND <br />STATED THAT THE BULLDOZER IS CHEAP, EFFECTIVE, AND IT WORKS. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED WHAT DEPTH WATER THEY ARE MOVING THE SAND <br />OUT OF, AND COMMISSIONER SIEBERT INQUIRED ABOUT THE DEPTH OF THEIR OCEAN <br />FLOOR UP TO APPROXIMATELY SO YARDS OFFSHORE. <br />MAYOR KELLEY STATED THAT THEY WORK PT DIFFERENT DEPTHS, BUT IT <br />AVERAGES THREE TO FOUR FEET. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE STATED THAT HE BELIEVED IN OUR SURF A BULLDOZER <br />WOULD BURY IN THE SAND FROM THE WAVE ACTION. <br />MAYOR KELLEY STATED THAT THERE WOULD BE A PROBLEM WITH A BULL- <br />DOZER WITH RUBBER TIRES, BUT NOT ONE WITH A TRACK., <br />EARL MALLORY OF PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY NOTED THAT HE <br />PREVIOUSLY SPOKE AT THE BEACH EROSION CONTROL WORKSHOP MEETING ADVOCATING <br />A "DO NOTHING`! STATUS AND ALSO OF STRUCTURES IN THE OCEAN BEING AN UTTER <br />FAILURE FOR EROSION CONTROL, HE STATED THAT HE STILL BELIEVES.OUR SITUA- <br />TION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF SEBASTIAN INLET AND NOW HAS FACTS TO BACK UP <br />HIS BELIEF. HE QUOTED FIGURES SETTING OUT THE AMOUNT OF SAND CARRIED BY <br />THE LITTORAL DRIFT FROM CAPE CANAVERAL TO FORT PIERCE AND STATED THAT ALL <br />THE SAND IN THIS DRIFT IS BEING.TRAPPED BY SEBASTIAN INLET AND THE AMOUNT <br />OF CUBIC YARDS OF SAND PRESENTLY IN THE SAND TRAP AT THE INLET PROVES IT. <br />HE NOTED THAT ONLY 72,000 CUBIC YARDS OF SAND ARE NEEDED TO MAINTAIN THE <br />BEACHES, AND IT IS ALL COLLECTED AT SEBASTIAN INLET. <br />16 <br />Ell 4 A. 271 <br />