Care of the Beach

CP beach is not natural by any means, I was a public bathing place inspector for the health dept for 4 years, having nearly 1,000 annual/enforcement inspections per year, including beaches- as well as numerous violations/forced closures.

In that time, the natural beaches are 5-10 feet wide in the northeast. Last time I checked, the width of CP beach is much much more than 10 feet. To those who felt that the beach has grown, it did.... because of importing sand. Nearly every beach does this, it is necessary because of not dynamic fluid erotion, but simply wind erotion.

Furthermore, CP is NOT an island. it is a peninsula.

I agree, tony.

Everyone's defense is that Cedar Point has a naturally-occurring beach. I never denied the fact that it is a natural beach.
I just said that it becomes necessary to bring in sand, especially
for cosmetic enhancement, as a lot of public beaches do.

Pete rules.

MrScott

tonymtdew said:
Furthermore, CP is NOT an island. it is a peninsula.

You really need to study the peninsula geology better.

Furthermore I provided links to maps and satelites of the break in the CP "peninsula" below. The small causeway for Cedar Point Rd. has a small bridge Between the Mainland and the peninsula. CP continues to claim it as a peninsula for tax puposes. The fact is the peninsula connection was washed away in a storm about 1920. You can literally go out to East Sandusky Bay metro park and see Man holes in the lake.... Sometimes the water is low enough they stick out of the lake.

There is a bridge therefore a break in the land on the Cedar Point Rd. Causeway. There are two bridges on the Cedar Point Drive Causeway. A manmade Road does not count in making a peninsula. If that were the case, Catawba Island would Be a peninsula. Catawba Island is an Island in roughly the exact same way The CP Peninsula was cut off in the storm. A very small break from the main land.

Link 1, Basic Map:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=41.431173~-82.619983&style=r&lvl=14&scene=2469172

Link 2 Birds Eye Image: (This one shows the bridge and the physical split and remnants of the former size of the peninsula.)
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qx4p8b83fh14&style=o&lvl=1&scene=2469172

Link 3 Satelite: (This one shows exactly how much of the peninsula was washed away.)
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=41.427288~-82.617982&style=h&lvl=15&scene=2474075

I'm no expert, but I know how to look at pictures.

Back to the beach. The peninsula is still natural sand. Load up a dump truck and take it up the peninsula to the beach. The CP beach grows and shrinks with the lake rise and fall. In the 40's it was huge. In the 80's it was about 10 - 20 feet. There is a natural movement of the water. As a health inspector, I give kudos to you. In my opinion, Lake erie should be closed for public bathing. The entire lake is a health hazard. God bless Detroit, Cleveland, and Windsor. *** Edited 7/28/2006 5:50:43 PM UTC by MonsterMan*** *** Edited 7/28/2006 5:55:13 PM UTC by MonsterMan***

Your definition of "island" is too simplistic. It is very much a peninsula.

We talked about this a few months ago, but I can't find the thread.