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Long Beach Public Works Dept. working to restore beach

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    Anna Kooiman reports from Long Beach, New York

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And it costs so much devastation in the northeast the cleanup is still a monumental task.

-- punched holes in a barrier island on the South Shore of New York's Long Island this -- Long Beach that you're looking at.

Now a lot of work is being done to get the beach back in shape.

And equipment joining us live from there tonight and a.

Slayer superstore in sandy storm surge left behind between four and fourteen feet of sand in some places.

On the streets it's taking crews more than a month to clean up.

And pile -- -- -- what has now been dubbed.

Now sandy and public works officials are using utilities I sisters that really resemble more of an overgrown that child's toy to get the sand clean.

Officials here in Long Beach say the price tag to clean up the -- -- -- pilot then put it back on the shoreline.

-- about ten million dollars this pile instead five stories high they whittled it down to two and a hat.

It was really great to start to see the mountain go down.

Knowing that that means that the sand is ultimately getting -- getting clean and put back on the beach.

For our safety our security and ultimately so we have a great summer season.

And crews are sending out things like wood -- screws and wiring they're also working with.

The department of environmental conservation to test for -- cents.

But doing testing on the -- to see what -- -- -- we can get out of it.

So far so good all of our test results have come back with some restricted use of the -- so we're able to put back -- -- -- whoever we see fit.

Any -- -- elevation of the beach following -- and sandy three feet lower than it has been in the past leaving homes and businesses.

More vulnerable to storm surge so crews have taken some of the sand and build a temporary barrier to at least get them -- nor'easter season.

Yeah I was gonna say pick up fourteen feet of -- you -- share about stuff I would imagine so and a -- -- the long term plans for getting the beach back to normal.

-- -- buyer malice and of them argue the industry needs to be rebuilt more methodically optimizing the use of proper due emplacement wetlands and oyster beds.

-- would we clean it up and just put it back the way it was we're not doing a good job we have to rebuild smarter and rebuild our beaches in a much better way.

Post sandy.

Public works officials tell me they're going to be asking the feds for funding for dredging and we nourishment a process -- they say they could cost between thirty and forty million dollars.

An -- thank you very much.

Well.

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