A year after $10M project added sand to Mass. beach, ‘about half of it is gone'

A Cape Cod town spent $10M to add more sand to its beach. Half is already gone

Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, continues to face an erosion problem, even after more than 300,000 cubic yards of sand were added

A year after $10M project added sand to Mass. beach, ‘about half of it is gone'

Erosion is a serious problem on the Massachusetts shoreline, especially, when those powerful winter storms start arriving. The latest example of extreme erosion is at Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, where a $10 million restoration project was completed this year. “The idea was that it would last five to seven years, but as you can see, about half of it is gone,” said Bill Boles of the Trustees of Sandwich Beaches. The shoreline in Sandwich, Massach…