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The impact of Tropical Storm Irene is still being felt in some locations, including state parks. WNPR’s Nancy Cohen reports Hammonasset Beach State Park sustained a lot of damage.
The preliminary estimate for the cost of repairing damage at all of the state parks is about $10 million. $7 million of that is just at Hammonasset where some of the dunes were blown away and old cedar trees at the campground took a hit. Environmental Deputy Commissioner Susan Frechette says the storm surge did the most damage at West Beach.
"A considerable amount of sand was washed away. It undermined the bath house complex down there and carried off sections of the boardwalk."
Frechette says state bond money had been approved previously to pay for designing a new bath house. The plan is to site it further away from the beach this time.
