Sandi Graham rented a house on Sandbridge Beach for the Fourth of July holidays so her asthmatic father could walk a few steps out the door and onto the sand.
But when the family pulled up last weekend, their ocean view was a panorama of bulldozers, portable toilets and a single sign: “Keep Out. Construction Area.”
“It’s noisy. The diesel fumes are bad. And my father hasn’t been outside once,” Graham said. “We researched this house specifically to make sure he could get to the beach.”
Graham and other vacationers are upset about the timing of the latest sand replenishment program, expected to pipe in 2 million cubic yards of sand during the next two months. The project began Sunday.
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