COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Less than a year after Edisto Beach dug out from Hurricane Matthew, Irma leveled rebuilt dunes, flooding the town again and filling its roadways with sand.
So now, following a nearly $19 million project that pumped 900,000 cubic yards (688,000 cubic meters) of sand onto the beach, the town hopes to rebuild berms with what's being scraped off the streets. It's unclear when it might get another round of replenishment money.
While coastal residents and officials say the project did its job in protecting property, others question the seeming futility.
Since 2015, legislators have designated $35 million toward the state's share of repairing beaches along the entire coastline, or $8 million less than the state's tourism agency requested. Now they have to deal with Irma's damage, too.