With the villa beach rapidly eroding, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is
\nplanning to give the beach an injection of white sand. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves during his appearance on WE
\nFM\u2019s Issue At Hand program.<\/p>\n
Minister Gonsalves also made mention of reef rehabilitation work that is expected to take place
\nin the future that will fix damage caused to the area in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe villa beach, which is eroding rapidly needs an injection of sand, but it needs an inject of white sand, it doesn\u2019t need more sand from the black sand area at Brighton.<\/p>\n
There have been some white sand deposits identified but we have not completed the analysis as to whether or not there would be environment impacts to dredging from those locations, so that work is ongoing. If the work is not complete by the time the dredging boat comes back, we\u2019d have to then order the dredging boat back on the Government\u2019s dime, to have them back, but we have developed a relationship with the company and they\u2019re essentially waiting on us to tell them when to come and where to dredge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The finance minister said that the Government also plans to initiate rehabilitation on the reef at
\nthe Villa beach area, in an attempt to reverse damage from the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose of you who have been around a little bit longer know that once upon a time they blew a
\nwhole in the reef in Villa beach to facilitate sea planes landing there, long time ago, and in
\nblowing the whole in that reef they changed the drift in the water which has had an eroding
\nimpact on that beach since then. These things take place over many years before you notice the
\nimpact.<\/p>\n
We are also analyzing with some coastal engineers out of Barbados the best way to
\nrehabilitate that piece of reef to redirect the flow of water the way it used to be before we
\ndestroyed the reef,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Minister Gonsalves said that the Government is working actively on this, but will not dredge any
\nsand from any location until the appropriate analyses have been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the villa beach rapidly eroding, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is planning to give the beach an injection of white sand. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves during his appearance on WE FM\u2019s Issue At Hand program. Minister Gonsalves also made mention of reef rehabilitation work that is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mainstory"],"yoast_head":"\n