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Article: Bolivar Peninsula on Texas Gulf Coast Credits Geotube with Preserving Property.
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- The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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Byline: Christine Rappleye
Jul. 31--In Eddie Oehlers' book, the geotube saved his beachfront property and 200 homes in his Boliver Peninsula neighborhood.
"If we had not had the tube it would have gotten two to three rows of homes," said Oehlers, president of the Gilchrest Community Association, in a telephone interview.
"We didn't realize how bad it was because we had the tube," said Oehlers, who has lived in Gilchrist for 26 years.
The 5-mile geotube that runs along either side of Rollover Pass will be repaired and sand placed on top, thanks to Galveston County being added to the federal Disaster Declaration.
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