Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180125:07:37:00
To put a large amount of sediment that would last for twenty years that would distribute itself. through natural forces along the coast so we don't have to disturb the ecosystem all the time. it took eight months to build a sand engine. dredges brought up material from the seabed ten kilometers offshore and spat it out here to create a huge depth of sediment as a peninsula in front of the original slender beach. twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand what dumped here five times as much as would be usual in a standard shorter term sand replenishment operation. the plan is for the wi...