Permanent fences will be installed this spring to protect the sand.
Friends of Sauble Beach has received a helping hand from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The Non-profit community group received $15,000 to install permanent sand fencing along the North Shoreline of Sauble Beach.
Sand Fencing Coordinator for Friends of Sauble Beach, Dave Corbett says the fencing will start near the Sauble River and continue to the Sauble Beach sign.
Corbett says the fencing will be up year ’round preventing sand from blowing onto the road and then being hauled off to the dump.
He says sand is a finite resource for the beach and once it is gone, there is no replacing it.
Friends of Sauble Beach received a $16,900 grant in 2006 to conduct an environmental report on the sand dunes, which made the current fence project possible.
Corbett says the fences will also help prevent erosion of the sand dunes.
Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch and Ontario Trillium representative Milt McIver presented the group with their cheque at last night’s council meeting.
