b'C H A P T E R N I N Ewere interested right from the get-go.Soon the project went beyond the talk stage. FCW directors Jane Harris and George Olmsted were tagged spark plugs, their call went out for volunteers, and FCW had itself another community-service project.Chathams Restless BeachesVisitors to the towns Lighthouse Overlook learn soon enough about what can happen when storm, moon and tide gang up on poorly protected sand and dune. TheJay Stahl, former executive director memorable breakthrough of 1987 tore upof the towns Chamber of Comenough of North Beach to create a whole merce, doing his stint as a Chatham sale gap between harbor and ocean thatWater Watcher.Some of the remains to this day. That historic event re volunteers go on from early morning wrote all the dynamics of Pleasant Bay fartesting duties to daytime jobs.north into its upper reaches. The basic evidence of the 87 storms destruction was easy to see.What the visitor may not spot is what coastal forces accomplish naturally. Left to their own devices, those actions keep borrowing sand from one beach front and depositing it elsewhere. That process never ends. OConnells interest in signing up Chatham for his project had a lot of justification: it offers a unique combination of water courses, from an impinging ocean and restless bay, to Nantucket Sound, where the shifting wave patterns do not have much respect for the shoreline.Ted Keon paints a word picture of the tireless change at the fringe between Chathams land and water:Nauset Beach is growing south, hut also retreating west at the same time. So theres a narrowing of that beach. South Beach has an extensive erosion trend right now ,A.tA.ndrew Hardings Lane, the area has undergone a lot of erosion. The town has done repeated beach nourishments there to try to stabilise it; thats been quite effective.164'