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Winthrop Beach restoration could begin by summer

By Katheleen Conti

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 26, 2012

Restoration of the severely eroded Winthrop Beach shoreline could begin this summer, after 13 years of frustrating delays for area residents. A modified proposal filed by the state’s top conservation agency calls for the trucking in of sand and gravel from an abandoned highway embankment in Saugus, as well as the dredging of natural sediment that has accumulated for over 50 years behind the breakwaters known as the Five Sisters.

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