K07 - We agree with you. Look. We have accurate bathy data of the inlet dating back to 2007. It's pretty easy to correlate the bathy data from 2007-2017 to the location of the shoreline.  Then using historical photography that shows the shoreline, it's possible to "hindcast" or "reverse engineer" the seafloor topography (bathymetry) back to the 1940's. All good, not a big deal.

We appreciate you bringing up all these little technical sand details, but seriously man, you're overthinking this project.  All we want to do is go down to the inlet and install some panels, for one day, one hour, maybe even one set of waves.  That's it.  If we install the panels only for a day or two, then there is NO EFFECT on the sand. Do you see where we're going with this?  The jetty is over 600' long. Surfline predicts waves up to 17 days in advance. We can go down to the inlet in August, right before a perfect waist-chest high swell, and bring back the wedge for one day. No problemo.

Yes, all of us at the FPP have degrees in coastal engineering and all that college mumbo jumbo, but we're also from here. We know how to swing a hammer and turn a wrench. We've put up plywood for a hurricane before.  Can we focus on the simple panel solution for just for a couple threads?

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