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Carefully loosening the sand in the joints and shop vac'ing out. Time consuming but should be damage free.

Thanks everyone. You all have good ideas here. I suggested to my husband that we call the manufacturer, but he doesn't want ANYTHING to do with them anymore. He is afraid that they'll send some unqualified person out to do the job, they'll mess up the counter, and our kitchen won't be finished for another 6 weeks while we wait for the new counter to come and be installed... we've done this whole kitchen ourselves and it's taken 10 months because my husband is very anal and very thorough... I think with your suggestions, we can hopefully get this sink out ourselves without damaging the counter. But I might call and try to talk to Whirlpool or Menards anyhow... the easiest thing would be for us to get this out ourselves and return it to Menards... but maybe not the smartest thing. We'll have to think this over. I'm 5 months pregnant and we need to get this kitchen DONE so we can redo the laundry room before baby comes. I will also put tape all over the outside of the enamel so as it continues to pop off, hopefully the tape will prevent it from flying and injuring someone. I didn't consider further breakage of the enamel - that was a good point. And leather gloves for all. I do know one thing for sure: the replacement sink will be Kohler. *sigh* I'll keep you all posted. I appreciate all your insights and tips.

I usually agree with gardengal, but...I'm going to come down on the glyphosate/triclopyr debate by saying it's FAR safer to recommend glyphosate to amateurs. Just, as a simple, blanket, "keep it simple stupid", "assume the worst" "murphy's law" kind of choice. More things can go wrong with the growth regulator type products. For example, someone mistakenly buys the ester formulation. They don't get to their project until mid May. When nights are still and warm, the vapors from the ester could kill or injure a broad swath of nearby vegetation.*** There's no ester formulations of glyphosate even manufactured - so need to worry about that ;-). Also someone recommended Tordon which as GG correctly noted, is a product _family_ that sometimes contains the very powerful and dangerous picloram. Plain old 41% glyphosate with a bit of dish detergent to help act as a penetrant is PERFECTLY capable of killing brush and weed trees...and has now been my go to choice for most situations, for over 5 years. (yes, at first I used growth regulator types like 3 way or triclopyr because they seem satisfyingly _faster_...but it's a false economy! At least on the level of commercial grade products, you get more killing bang for your buck with generic roundup/glyphosate formulations!) I just used it last spring to kill some privets, and believe me, they stayed dead. *** and btw from what I see using it to control violets, I'm not sure the AMINE formulation of triclopyr can't quickly hydrolyze to the free acid and also spread unexpectedly, even though that's not officially supposed to happen