They know how to do it, and it’s been done before. It cost $3 million when it was done in 2006, including some sand added in Sosua and Puerto Plata.
Here are some fotos of the work when it was done.
The new sand was a lighter color than what was here previously and they added about 4 feet of depth as I recall. Along the whole bay.
We are just getting back down to some of the original sand and the shiny glistening rocks near the shoreline at sunrise that I recall from my first time in cabarete back in 2000.
Many who weren’t here prior to 2006 don’t have a clue that what has washed away in the last decade, was what was pumped in (from Río San Juan área as I was told at the time but can’t say for certain).
From DR1 News at the time:
“New beach for Cabarete
According to Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez, the government has spent three million dollars on the reconstruction of Cabarete's beach. A total of 280,000 cubic meters of new sand was dumped on the beach, and the 2.5-kilometer stretch can now handle as many as 100,000 beachgoers at one time. Funding for the project, which includes Puerto Plata and Sosua beaches as well as Cabarete, came from a passenger tax and private sector contributions with the Puerto Plata Hotel Association playing a principal role.”
http://dr1.com/news/2006/dnews121106.shtml#1