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Bond In Investing Savings State scientists and members of the academic community have some concerns about a little-known method proposed by a Maryland company that wants to help the borough deal with beach erosion.

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Bond Investment Toledo Toledo Sand-Rx Inc., of Rockville, Md., believes it can inhibit beach erosion by reversing the charge of sand particles that causes them to repel each other. (An earlier article in the Press gave the wrong name for the company.)

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James Bond Trading Card By reversing the charge, the company claims, it will cause the sand particles to bond, making the beaches less susceptible to high winds and storm damage that washes sand out to sea.

Bond In Investing Stock The company claims that sewage treatment plants distribute a chemical into waterways that eventually reaches the beaches and increases the repulsion among sand grains.

BuySafe bonds cannot be partially cancelled. For example, if you place an order for five products, purchase a BuySafe bond and cancel three of the products, the BuySafe charge will NOT be adjusted. You can choose to either cancel the bond in its entirety or pay the full bond price for coverage on the remaining products.

Municipal Bonds Investment The same chemical causes salt particles to repel each other, making it flow more smoothly through a salt shaker, the company says in its literature.

BuySafe bonds cannot be partially cancelled. For example, if you place an order for five products, purchase a BuySafe bond and cancel three of the products, the BuySafe charge will NOT be adjusted. You can choose to either cancel the bond in its entirety or pay the full bond price for coverage on the remaining products.

Bond Terms Trading The company made its proposal - to test the product on the Harvey Cedars beaches - during a closed meeting earlier this month.

Bond Debt High In Inside Borough officials are still waiting for more information from the company, such as previous results and possible side effects, before it goes ahead with any decision.

Bond Greenville Greenville Company officials have refused to comment on its product, saying that they will comment once the borough negotiations are complete.

Trading Stock And Bonds If the borough decides to move ahead with the proposal, it would have to get approval from various state agencies.

Bond Investing Municipal But that may be problem, since most of them have never heard of the product.

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Bond Explained Terms Trading After reading the company's literature, many had questions about the product's effectiveness and scientific basis.

Bond Business Investing Stock Their skepticism was tempered by the fact that little information was available, bringing most of them to say they would need more information to give any kind of real assessment.

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Bond Corporate Investing "What happens if there is a strong nor'easter? Will the bonds be strong enough?" asked Lisa Weiss, watershed coordinator at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve in Little Egg Harbor Township. "And if it does, what does that mean to the consistency of the sand."

Investment Bond Uk "It would be hard to convince me that there is a bond strong enough between sand that could hold it together strong enough to fend off wind. That sounds more like cement," said Rob Sherrell, an oceanography professor at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

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Bond Fixed In Income Investing Since it would be a new chemical on the beach, some wanted to know what effect it would have on the habitat of the beach.

Bond Dayton Dayton Investment "How far does the chemical go down and what does it do to the wildlife that exists there? These questions would need to be answered before anything would happen," Weiss said.

Bond Management Market Risk In the company's warranty, it guarantees that the product is nontoxic and safe. It also guarantees that the beach will look the same after the product is applied.

Bond In Investing Municipal The company claims that Sand-Rx will stabilize the beach, which may be good news for Harvey Cedars, but bad news for Barnegat Light.

Bond Investment Las Las North According to scientists, beaches naturally have a give and take relationship. If the Harvey Cedars beaches stop giving, then other beaches along the coastline will have less to take in.

Future Bond Trading System "You really have to be careful if you stabilize a beach. Because it could have serious erosion effects down the line," Weiss said.

Bond In Investing Junk It is unclear whether the product has been tested on any beach in this country. During a Harvey Cedars meeting last month, Kerstin Ottey, a representative of Sand-Rx, said the company had tested the project on some beaches.

Bond Investment Orlando The product was not familiar to the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection or several of their regional offices, including the offices that oversee the East and West coasts.

Bond Free Trading A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman said the corps has heard very little about the method.

Bond Free Guide Investing "I talked to some people who have heard about it, but even that was second-hand, so we would feel uncomfortable about giving any kind of opinion on it," said Ed Voigt, spokesman for the corps.

Bond Gainesville Gainesville The Sand-Rx company was founded in 1992 with a mission to develop technologies for environmental remediation and rehabilitation, according to its literature. Among the first applications of the Sand-Rx technology were mold remediation, salt mining and processing and toxic waste treatment.

Bond David David Guide Guide In 2003, the company expanded its research and development efforts to include beach rehabilitation and air filtration products.

Bond Investment Pensacola By Jarrett Renshaw
The Press of Atlantic City - 11/27/2003

Topic: Beach Replenishment

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