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By Rich Pollack

Highland Beach town commissioners in January shied away from regulating “floating vessel platforms” — floating extensions of a dock used to keep boats out of the water when not in use — despite concerns from the owner of one home who

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By Jane Smith

More than two months after the city received a proposed $1.8 million fine over its botched reclaimed water program, the Delray Beach legal team was still negotiating a settlement with the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach Count

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 Native plants keep the dunes healthy

7960712297?profile=originalBay bean (Canavalia rosea), a vine that trails along beach dunes and coastal sand,

blooms most of the summer and sporadically the rest of the year.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

    Al

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Freshly pumped sand appears dark when first spread on the original beach,

but is expected to lighten over time.

Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

 

By Cheryl Blackerby

    Florida Department of Environmental Protection scientists took water samples at t

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