Weeks Marine dredging company is rebuilding the beach and sand dunes along the Caminada Headlands in Jefferson and Lafourche parishes with sand mined from Ship Shoal, about 35 miles off the coast. The sand is barged to just offshore of the beach, and then pumped through this 36-inch pipe to the shoreline. The bulldozers help shape the beach and dunes before the pipe is moved to build another segment of beach. Note that in the far background, between the pipe and the moving bulldozers, a coyote is walking in the water along the beach.
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