For example, not having the replenished sand we desperately need on the beach for several more years is completely unacceptable! Another strong storm may collapse oceanfront buildings.

We could also lose our place on line, so to speak, because other communities that actually sign on to Army Corps projects — which take time to complete — will obtain corps sand and protection ahead of Long Beach.

In the interim, if other corps projects (dunes, etc.) are damaged by future storms, the corps is contractually forced to give them priority in replenishment at no local or state expense.

And if there are so many corps projects being initiated and others requiring replenishment, there may not be enough dredges available to begin placing sand on Long Beach’s oceanfront in a timely manner. There also may be some regulatory roadblocks.

Finally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not put sand on any beach that does not have engineered status.

Kramer is an environmentalist and an Atlantic Beach resident.

Editor’s note: The City Council approved a resolution in December to revisit the Army Corps of Engineers storm-reduction project and has entered into talks with the corps. It has yet to approve a coastal protection plan. The 2006 plan may also be in need of a revision. Chris Gardner, a spokesman for the corps, told the Herald in December, “When it’s been some years, any plan is going to have to be updated, and what we’re doing right now is a limited evaluation report that began in 2010.”