Business View Civil & Municipal l November 2022

198 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 fundraiser at that time, offering a chance to buy a board and have a name engraved on it. “As we dismantle the current boardwalk, we were looking to return those boards to the owners if they were still around to accept them,” he conveys, adding, “Unfortunately, back in January, Mother Nature beat us to the punch and lifted up about a third of them and dumped them into Cape Cod Bay, and they came back into the Marsh.” Through a community effort, these boards were recovered and the hope is that they will still be returned to their original owners. To continue with this tradition, the new boardwalk will offer another opportunity to purchase a plank and have it engraved. Located at the mouth of the Cape Cod Canal, the town of Sandwich is currently battling erosion. Vitacco explains, “The canal was dug about 100 years ago, and being an unnatural structure, the sand would roll around and try to make its way back into the canal. So about 50 years