Dredge Work Started at Little Lagoon

Snaking through the shallow water of Little Lagoon, a dredge pipe that will soon be pumping sand from Little Lagoon Pass to the surf line of West Beach. "This is a good sign that things are getting back to normal," says Project Manager Danny Rackard. "It's slow starting but once we get everything started it moves right along."

For the last couple of weeks that's what they've been doing, getting started. But in a couple of months from the pass will be open to the gulf and to the public says Rackard. "Reopen the pass, restore it back to state specifications and return it back over to the Alabama Department of Transportation."

City officials in Gulf Shores point to the entire Little Lagoon project as one of the success stories tin the entire disaster that was the BP oil spill.

"It's going back to normal." City administrator Grant Brown says blocking off the pass before oil could get into lagoon was a victory for everyone. "One of the real preventative measures the city of Gulf Shores was able to take to protect the very sensitive environment was the closure of Little Lagoon Pass and the monitoring and opening it to reduce the water height at times when water filled the lagoon up successfully open and closed it up again to protect it from all that material entering the lagoon."

A success story with a happy ending, once the pass is open for good.