SEAVIEW BAY BEACH + PLAYGROUND

Our swim staff for the 2010 season is LINDA ACEE, CRISSY & ROBBIE CUTRONE, JT ANDERSON, ELIZABETH BRAUN, KAITLYN SULLIVAN, COLLEEN MALONE, and JESSICA ZICCARDI.

 

We are looking forward to a wonderful summer!

Linda Acee                                                Clyde Zucker
Bay Beach Supervisor                               Bay Beach Committee Chairman

Summer/2010

Below are some of Last Season's locally grown images...

 

 

Meet the new Barber Sand Man. (Click here)
Since the bay beach play area is built on landfill, we've been constantly plagued by the migration of glass (dumped there decades ago) up thru the sand to the surface. A few years ago, the SVA lifted and sifted the top layer of sand, laid down a textile barrier and replaced the sand. That worked for a while, but the glass, helped by hydraulic pressure from the tides, returned.

An option presented to the BOD this year was the removal of the top 3-4 ft of sand, the placement of another layer of fabric covered by a 6 inch layer of crushed stone and yet another layer of fabric. The cost, including shipping the materials to FI, was prohibitive.

It's made in Connecticut by H. Barber and Sons. It arrived at the Bay Beach on a trial basis a couple of weeks ago and was recently tested by our community manager, Larry Mattiesen and various members of the BOD. It lifts the top layer of sand up and deposits it on a screen. Sand falls thru, material removed from the sand gets fed into a hopper at the rear of the machine. The pictures of the straining screen show how well it works, and as a bonus, the rocks etc. removed from the sand will be recycled into one of our paving projects.

The game plan is to run the machine a couple of hours daily starting early in the season. At some point, we believe we'll get ahead of the glass migration, and cleaning the Bay Beach will become a weekly maintenance task, like mowing the Ballfield.