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The nor'easters, brian, and with tropical systems, over time some of that sand will come back and the natural replenishment will kick in. but again, they pumped a lot of sand, lot of money spent every year by the corps up and down the beaches to keep them nice and wide. sometimes it all goes for naught especially when you have a system like this not moving, slowing down, battering the beaches. the waves running 15, 20, 25 footers and that's on top of the surge. what we call the wave run up. it just eats away at the beaches. that's going to be part of the story, along with the inland flood thre...

Summer there's been agencies that test the water. nobody has tested the beach. even though parts of the beach look clean, there's more oil than you can see. >> the sand looks clean to the naked eye. >> after sunset it looks different. >> it lights up pretty good. it's pretty much anywhere and everywhere. social geologist can see the oil at night. oil particles glow on the sand and in the water. it leaves a little line of oily sand right there at the end of the wave run up. when this drys in the morning, the wind will pick it up, and it will move it. >> across the beach and everything that live...