Dauphin Island hires expert to help save eroding beaches - al.com

Dauphin Island hires expert to help save eroding beaches - al.com: "The Town of Dauphin Island has hired well-known coastal engineer Scott Douglass to recommend how to restore the island's eroded beaches along the Gulf of Mexico and to suggest ways to pay for the work.

Mayor Jeff Collier said that Douglass' report, expected this fall, should help advance efforts of the past two years to rebuild the barrier island, which has lost hundreds of feet from erosion in recent decades.

'The island needs a unified voice so that we are all on the same page,' the mayor said."