Per my June update, I attended the Public Workshop meeting on June 10th. There is concern that our sand resource will be gone in eleven years. This project, which is in the beginning fact finding stage, is simply a method to store some or all the 130,000 cubic yards of sand required annually to maintain our beaches directly S of the Inlet. This sand would be available to place on our beaches as it is currently done.

Currently there are two options. In both, a 2,300 ft. long basin is constructed beginning just W of the North side of the Jetty.
Option 1: the basin will be 170 ft. wide and 30 ft deep, thus allowing up to an estimated 150,000 cubic yards of sand to be stored and dredged back to our beaches every three years.
Option 2: the basin would be 120 ft. wide and 8 ft deep, allowing 80,000 cubic yards of sand to be stored and dredged back to our beaches every year.
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There would be no loss of sand to the beaches N of us because the Jetty itself is not being changed! Currently this sand proceeds into the Inlet and ends up in the back basin.

The 6 groin project that I spoke of in my update is a sand retention
project and would go hand in glove with the sand trapping project.

This process is being widely used up and down our East Coast of Florida without many ill affects- the only ones noted were that the S beaches were not getting enough sand.

The questions and comments were good, and Taylor Engineering did an easily understood “down to the public” presentation.

I will continue to follow the progress of the sand trapping and the groin project.

Arden Peck-Chair Beach and Parks Committee