Project To Give Cozumel Real Estate Bigger Beaches About To Begin

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A project to re-build several beaches in the Cozumel Real Estate area is scheduled to start in the middle of October. On the island of Cozumel, which is a TOP Mexico Beachfront destination for real estate, authorities plan to reconstruct approximately 1.5 km of beaches in different sites on the island, for which the project has allotted 131,000 cubic meters of sand.

Mexican authorities are investing 957 million pesos (70 million dollars) to recover a total of 16.8 miles of beaches in the Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Cozumel Real Estate areas. The goal is to have beaches up to 40 meters wide, for which a total of 6.1 million cubic meters of sand will be needed.

To implement the project, the authorities have selected two sand banks known as "The Ollita" and "North Bank", which will be dredged and the sand they collect will be deposited on beaches. Additionally elaborate containment structures will be constructed ...
... with concrete to avoid losing the newly recovered sand.

On October 19th the extraction and pumping of sand with a huge dredger will start; the machine is currently located in the Port of Manzanillo on Mexico's Pacific coast, but must cross the Panama Canal to arrive in Quintana Roo.

According to Chief Engineer of the Beach Restoration Project, Juan Carlos Espinal, the sand to be used on beaches "does not get hot in the sun, has a high density and is compatible with the existing sand."

The works, which were initially announced in July this year, will begin in late October and will be conducted by the Mexican company Dragados, said a statement from the Trust for the Restoration, Recovery, Support and Maintenance of the Federal Zone Maritime Land state of Quintana Roo.

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