The storm destroyed the sand dunes at Sunset Beach in Treasure Island, forcing county leaders to close the beach as they work to re-surface the dunes. The dune restoration project has been ...

Pinellas says it appears the weekend storm washed out half of their new sand dunes which cost $26M to reconstruct. In some areas, near Sunset Beach in Treasure Island, the dunes have been ...

TREASURE ISLAND — The day after Hurricane Idalia whipped past Sunset Beach ... sand that make this region famous were spread all over the streets in uneven layers. The storm chewed up the dunes ...

Treasure Island has announced closures along Sunset Beach while the city works to restore badly damaged dunes after Hurricane ... renourishment projects in Sand Key, Treasure Island and Long ...

An excavator is used to load it up into an offroad dump truck. They'll disperse the sand across the dunes to restore Sunset Beach. Crews are working 12-hour days, six days a week to get sand ...

Along Sunset Beach, the project has now entered its second phase – planting vegetation. Tons of sand have been hauled in a dispersed to replace the dunes. Now, grass and other plants are being ...

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla — Sunset Beach is closing for an emergency ... “I think replenishing the sand dunes and the beach itself is a good idea, and it will help," Cavender added.

“The erosion is not just from people but from climate change, swells and winds,” said Jeannie Martinson, president of the Sunset ... the beach, where there is vegetation, the sand dunes ...

Hayward said the corps will dredge about 1.75 million cubic yards 2 miles offshore of Sunset Beach. That sand will then be deposited onto the beach, which will gradually erode over time and make ...

Sunset Beach ... some sections of the beach, there was very little dry sand for people to retreat to because the line of cabanas took up the space between the water and dunes.

Image credit: USGS/NASA/Landsat 7 This is the Erg Chech at sunset, a massive sand sea that embodies the endless dunes and lack of vegetation that characterizes our most stereotypical ideas of a ...

It contained the sales office for Henry Doelger, who remade the Sunset from sand dunes to subdivisions as he built 16,000 homes on the city's west side. He offered a choice of "Spanish ...