INDIAN SHORES, Fla. - Crews are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to place millions of cubic yards of sand up and down Pinellas County’s coast.

It’s enough sand to fill up the Dali Museum more than 40 times, and is part of the beach nourishment project that started on Wednesday near 197th Avenue in Indian Shores.

It’s a project that has been in the works for a while, though.

The backstory:

It’s the first major renourishment project in Pinellas County since 2018. Pinellas County Commissioner Kathleen Peters said it’s overdue.

"I am so happy and so excited," she said. "This has been long awaited and hard fought for."

"As many people saw, that behind and with the storms that we had eroded our beaches to non-existent, where seawalls were showing. We saw structures that we did

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