Protecting beaches from erosion is difficult enough, but extra steps are needed when man-made structures, such as the Boynton Inlet, block the natural southerly flow of sand. On the inlet’s Ocean Ridge side, rock groins have been placed to slow erosi
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ABOVE: A sand transfer plant on the north side of the Boynton Inlet runs as sand accumulates along the jetty. BELOW: Sand and water pour out of the transfer pipe on the inlet’s south side. Photos by Tim Stepien and John Pacenti/The Coastal Star
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By John Pacenti
Manalpan’s first-ever Beach Committee meeting found members grappling with what — if anything — to do about the condition of arguably the town’s most vital resource.
The Oct. 22 meeting included Town Manager Eric Marmer and the three-
Finance chief leaves after 2½ years — Delray Beach Chief Financial Officer Hugh Dunkley was leaving to take a job “out of municipal government” in waste management, he confirmed after the Sept. 10 City Commission workshop.
“I consider it an opportuni
By Mary Thurwachter
An interlocal agreement to add sand to the beaches in Palm Beach, South Palm Beach and Lantana this winter may be losing one municipality: Lantana.
It’s all about money.
When the dune restoration was hatched a few years ago, South
On Nov. 8, Lantana’s public beach was scoured by a heavy storm. This shows the beach south of the Imperial House. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana’s public beach is sand-starved, and a plan spearheaded by the town of Palm Bea
Palmsea condo residents Carmine (foreground) and Bob Scalia watch a dump truck and bulldozer work on a project that calls for delivery of up to 1,000 truckloads of sand to the dune line of South Palm Beach. As the project progressed in the cousins’ b
The Rachel K Goodwin, a specially outfitted 121-foot research vessel, is working in advance of planned beach renourishment in Delray this year and in 2020. Photo by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Stephen Moore
Jim Gammon and his wife, Margo Stahl-G
Contractor Weeks Marine pumps sand from the shoal just outside the Boca Raton Inlet on March 28. The shoal sand was placed on beaches south of the inlet. Photo by Palm Beach County
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s dredge contractor was asked to cut
By Steve Plunkett
There’s a definite thaw in the cold war between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and city officials.
“There’s more of a mood of cooperation,” Steve Engel, the district’s vice chairman, said Sept. 23 after he and
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District plans to hand-deliver a check for $3.7 million — as soon as the City Council finds time to accept it.
The money is half the local cost of renourishing the city’s beaches from the
All’s square between the city and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District for the first time in years.
The district paid an unexpected almost $2 million for a beach renourishment project that Boca Raton thought the federal government wo
By Cheryl Blackerby
Rough seas halted dredging for the renourishment project at Boca Raton’s north beach Nov. 15. More bad weather delayed dredging during Thanksgiving week.
“We only have eight full days of work left,” said Jennifer Bistyga, co
Tons of limestone boulders and recycled concrete slabs were sunk to re-create the Goggle Eye Reef.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
About 700 tons of limestone boulders and scrap concrete were dumped into the ocean about a half-
Pipes and heavy equipment needed for the renouishment project
have been staged on the beach in Ocean Ridge waiting for calmer seas.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
A sand dredge moved from the Port of Palm Beach to Ocean Ridge
Dredge contractor Marinex Construction Inc. positions boats
to dredge material from near the Boca Raton Inlet to widen the beach to the south.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
After delays from bad weather, including high winds
By Steve Plunkett
A federal contractor could have its dredge off Ocean Ridge’s beach before Thanksgiving.
The shore protection project, another in Delray Beach and a third in Boca Raton make up a $10.8 million contract the U.S. Army Corps of
By Cheryl Blackerby
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners are willing to pay a greater share of the city’s beach renourishment bills. But before they start writing bigger checks, they’d like to start playing a bigger role in shaping t
By Cheryl Blackerby
In March, Boca Raton will be trucking in sand to repair damaged dunes on the north beach. The 5,000 tons — 3,600 cubic yards — of sand from an inland mine will cost about $170,000.
“It’s a small dune project. It’s 2,000
By Margie Plunkett
A $9 million beach renourishment project will proceed, after Delray Beach commissioners committed to spending the money even though anticipated federal financing has not been allocated.
“It will cost us way more if we don’t,” said
