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Beach Update: Junior Beach Tour Championships (USAV - USA Volleyball)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
- Last week proved busy for beach volleyball with four major events taking place and the release of the 2016 Olympic Games pool play schedule. This week on the sand features the Junior Beach Tour Championships. USA Volleyball is back at it with another junior championship on the beach, this week hosting the Junior Beach Tour Championships from Milwaukee, July 22-24 ... BEACH NEWS ... OLYMPIC BEACH VOLLEYBALL TEAM ... 25-26 in Long Beach, Calif....

History Discovered (Penn State Harrisburg)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
Women posing on Chicken Bone Beach ... But a chance sighting of black-and-white photos in a Philadelphia gallery window in 2014 would eventually change her mind and open up to her a world during the 1930s to 1960s in which African Americans ruled a section of Atlantic City beach, known as 'Chicken Bone Beach.' ... Chicken Bone Beach was a segregated beach for African Americans, and the photos were taken by John W....

Sewage Spill in Downtown Los Angeles Enters L.A. River, Requires Closure of Coastal Beaches in Long Beach (City of Long Beach, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
City of Long Beach, CA) On Monday, July 18, a sewage spill from a broken sewage pipe in downtown Los Angeles entered the Los Angeles River, prompting the closure of all coastal beaches in Long Beach ... River terminates in Long Beach....

Homeowners’ lawsuit:  County’s beach-sign ban flouts First Amendment (Pacific Legal Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
SANTA ROSA BEACH, FL; July 18, 2016. The owners of a beachfront home sued Walton County today for banning signs on private beach property - including the signs against trespassing that the homeowners have installed on their privately owned beach property to safeguard their privacy, personal safety, and property rights ... Donor-supported PLF has its national headquarters in Sacramento and its Florida office in Palm Beach Gardens....

National Lakeshore’s Central Avenue Beach Reopens (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Central Avenue Beach was reopened to the public on Saturday July 16, 2016. The popular beach has been closed for almost a year due to erosion from large storm waves that removed nearly all the beach's sand ... Over the last couple of months, the beach sand has been slowly replenished through natural deposition from the lake....

National Lakeshore’s Central Avenue Beach Reopens (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Central Avenue Beach was reopened to the public on Saturday July 16, 2016. The popular beach has been closed for almost a year due to erosion from large storm waves that removed nearly all the beach's sand ... Over the last couple of months, the beach sand has been slowly replenished through natural deposition from the lake....

New beach access at Far Beach (Mackay Regional Council)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
Cr Fran Fordham said the stairs would provide safe passage to the beach for residents. 'Following the completion of this project there are now three different beach access points at Far Beach,' she said. 'By using these accesses, residents will not only have a dedicated and safe way to access the beach, but they will also ......

Health advisory issued July 19 for water contact at D River Beach (Oregon Public Health Division)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
Oregon Public Health Division) ​The Oregon Health Authority issued a public health advisory today for higher-than-normal levels of bacteria in ocean waters at D River Beach, located in Lincoln County ... While this advisory is in effect at D River Beach, visitors should avoid wading in nearby creeks, pools of water on the beach, or in discolored water, and stay clear of water runoff flowing into the ocean....

Los Angeles sewage spill shuts down beaches 20 miles away

Edit The Oklahoman 19 Jul 2016
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage spewed from a 90-year-old pipe that burst in an industrial area near downtown Los Angeles, leading beaches to close 20 miles downriver in Long Beach, officials said Tuesday ... Kerr with the Long Beach city health department....

Toronto kiteboarder rescues woman in Lake Erie

Edit Toronto Sun 19 Jul 2016
Mark Bowser, 40, was out on the water near Augustine beach in Wainfleet shortly before 3 p.m. Monday when he noticed people on the beach frantically waving their arms ... The same windy conditions that were ideal for kiteboarding Monday also made the beach dangerous for swimmers, “and I guess the current dragged her out.” ... Karry Clarkson, from Lewiston N.Y., was on the beach as Bowser came pulled the woman to safety....

Los Angeles sewage spill shuts down ocean 20 miles away

Edit The Oklahoman 19 Jul 2016
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage spewed from a 90-year-old pipe that burst in an industrial area near downtown Los Angeles, leading ocean waters downriver in Long Beach to close, officials said Tuesday ... Kerr with the Long Beach city health department....

Swells take further toll on beach

Edit Otago Daily Times 19 Jul 2016
Heavy swells in June have undermined the beach at Oamaru's waterfront ... Heavy swells in June have undermined the beach at Oamaru's foreshore "significantly'', the Waitaki District Council's roading manager says ... The council would then call for tenders for the planned installation of geotextile sand mattresses at the beach in front of a proposed 240m sea wall ... "It's a mobile beach....

Miami Beach commissioner wants city to rethink light rail choice

Edit The Miami Herald 19 Jul 2016
As plans for a light rail loop around South Beach speed through the approval process with unusual ease, there are concerns about the train’s compatibility with a future rail system connecting to the mainland ... “If this is just a Miami Beach solution, then that’s not what I’m looking for,” she said. “The endgame is a connection between Miami and Miami Beach.”....
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