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Along the Coast: Boca wins sand dispute with down-drift town

Posted by The Coastal Star on January 3, 2018 at 14:14

By Steve Plunkett

The next time Boca Raton dredges the hazardous ebb shoal in the Boca Raton Inlet, it will be allowed to deposit the sand north of the inlet instead of south.
Hillsboro Beach, the town just south of Deerfield Beach in Broward County,

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Boca Raton: City digs channel through inlet shoal after finishing central beach project

Posted by The Coastal Star on March 29, 2017 at 13:00

7960718499?profile=originalContractor 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

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