As the tides rolls up and down the Atlantic coast along South Carolina beaches, the shoreline can began to erode causing damage to homes, businesses and not to mention less space for vacationers to enjoy themselves. Myrtle Beach constantly monitors its shoreline along many checkpoints.

Landowners and investors in coastal communities whether it be in the tourist industry or any other business find that it is in their best interest to do all that can be done to keep this valuable natural resource, our shoreline, intact. State and local governments like the city of Myrtle Beach are concerned with taking care of our natural assets as well.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is an example of what coastal communities can do to preserve natural recourses. In the past 50 or more years state and local governments as well as large and small municipalities and businesses have worked together to keep the South Carolina shoreline healthy. Myrtle Beach has implemented renourishment projects in 1986, 1997 and Paul T. Gayes, director of the Burroughs and Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies has awarded an additional grant for the 2007 Myrtle Beach Renourishment Projects.

These projects don't just buoy up the shoreline, they actually help the coastline to rebuild itself in various ways. Some of the most acknowledged are rebuilding sand dunes and shoreline with sand dredged from the ocean floor, building fences to give the wind a place to continuously build dunes that are bigger and more substantial and planting sea oats.

Myrtle Beach is grateful for the tremendous support in the form of millions of dollars that has been granted to supplement their own efforts each year to keep the Myrtle Beach shoreline wide and beautiful.