Tuesday Trivia - Bay Lake Sand

The white sands of the resorts surrounding Bay Lake and the Seven Seas Lagoon at Walt Disney World all came from the bottom of Bay Lake.  During initial site work, Bay Lake was emptied by many pumps, and a bottom layer of root structures, silt, muck and debris was dredged out - over 7 million cubic yards of earth were removed (and later used to build up the base of the Magic Kingdom more than 14 feet).  Underneath all of that muck and mire were thousands of tons of pure white sand, which was removed, cleaned, and relocated to line the more than 4 1/2 miles of beach that surround the 172 acre man-made Seven Seas Lagoon and neighboring Bay Lake.