The same formula would apply for sand replenishment each five years or as needed over the 50-year span of the project.

I cannot find anything in the compact between the two states that established the Port Authority that remotely says the authority is to pay for sand replenishment on beaches.

Homeowners see salvation in sand replenishment and seawalls, but environmental groups say those measures come at the expense of the public good.

In the short term, planned retreat includes temporary seawalls and sand replenishment to protect property.

The district would allow a long seawall designed to resemble the coastal bluffs, long-term sand replenishment and underwater "sand retention" devices or artificial reefs.

Because of a hurricane on Sept. 8, 1995, the Pines lost $1 million of its sand replenishment from the year before.

Federal funding of sand replenishment has been cut off since 2005, leading to further reduction in sand added to the peninsula.

With extensive sand replenishment, the groins gave some protection to houses built between them.

Yet before the wind-driven waves had subsided, they had dragged away the remaining section of a 350-foot-wide beach that is part of the nation's largest sand replenishment project.

If successful, the project could be duplicated elsewhere and save taxpayers in the state millions of dollars a year in sand replenishment and beach restoration.