At the seaside resort of Eastbourne on the English east coast, local authorities have been using dredged shingle from the Isle of Wight to restore the off-coast strand. In the USA beach nourishment is estimated to cost $200 million a year.The Island of Captiva, which was almost cut in two by beach erosion in the 1970's, spent an estimated $9 million nourishing its beach fronts only to find the new sand completely lost some ten years later.