Locals said they found dumpsters loaded with shells and some living creatures in them, all believed to be scored from the ocean floor.
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla —"I’m a shell collector. I’ve been collecting shells for 20 years since I’ve been here," Kevin Askew said. He lives in Vilano Beach.where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a beach restoration project. Extra sand on the beach could thwart beach erosion and keep the surf from lapping over A1A.
During the project, sand is dredged from the ocean floor, seven miles out. It's pumped through pipes to the beach, and then that sand is spread over the beach. He said a Bobcat -- or a similar kind of machinery -- scraped the newly placed sand on the beach, picking up shells and sand. Those shells and sand were then loaded into a large, yellow, screened box. Eskew said that yellow, screened box was then taken a few feet into the surf and its contents were rinsed.
Eskew said a days later, he saw identical dumpsters in a nearby public parking lot on Euclid Avenue off of A1A . Intrigued, he checked them out.And to his horror,"and I saw live creatures, still alive."Kevin Askew holds what he says is a fighting conch he found in the dumpster.some of the shells he retrieved from the dumpsters. He held what he said was a fighting conch in his hand. "There were a lot of these that were still alive in the dumpster.
Cathy Aissen lives in Vilano Beach. She said,"I went over and I looked in and they were all shells. Dead and alive and they were starting to stink. I thought, 'this isn’t right.'"there are precautions taken for protecting sea turtles, but he didn’t know what’s in place to protect invertebrates such as animals that live in shells. He suggested speaking to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Aissen contacted the county with her concerns.
Meanwhile, Eskew and other concerned neighbors are worried what is happening to the ocean floor if they’re finding live animals who are dying in large dumpsters.Eskew said,"I’d like to see this process changed somehow, someway."
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