b'C H A P T E R N I N EOn Nantucket Sound, at Hardings Beach, change has a certain character, and then, to the west, Cockle Cove is quite different.Its directly down-drift of all the shore protection groins along Corest and Pleasant Street Beaches. Thats a very very sand- starved location. Erosions extremely rapid there.Focusing on that one-of-a-kind profile, Keon and 0 Connell put their heads together to pick sites where volunteer measuring teams could set up shop. Ted Keon recommended Andrew Hardings Lane to see how much sand from the Towns nourishment is lost and the rate of loss. Jim 0 Connell was interested in a Nantucket Sound location, so the two settled on Hardings Beach.Then they agreed on Cockle Cove. Says Keon, That site appealed to both of us.Thats where Im actively involvedplanning a beach project. Its perfect timing for the volunteers to provide some pre-project surveys and then post-project, to see how the beach erodes, how it responds toWhen Director of Coastal Resources nourishing. Ted Keon was approached about The locations determined, the pairstarting to measure Chathams then picked their measuring sites: two atbeaches, he knew exactly where to Andrew Hardings Lane, two at Hardingsturn to line up volunteers:FCW. Beach, and four at Cockle Cove. At eachFriends leadership was quick to sign one they drove a ten-foot copper pipe deepon, and in no time Keon had his team of Chatham Beach Watchers.into the sand behind the dune crest. ThenGordon Zellnerthe Parks and Recreation Department made for each volunteer team an Emery Rod; it enables the measurers to take readings of the dune and beach profiles by sighting to the horizon. It was now time to put the volunteers to work.FCW Gets Into the ActOn March 6, 2002, Friends volunteers, eighteen in all (now 28), gathered to learn their tasks in the field. As instructor, Jim 0 Connell managed the session, both indoors and outside. Afterward, the teams dispersed to their respective sites.165'