Palm Beach greenlights funding for three beach nourishment projects set for 2025

Major repairs are in store for Palm Beach’s coastline after the Town Council approved resolutions this week to help pay for three major sand nourishment projects scheduled for the upcoming year.

Passed without discussion during the council’s Tuesday meeting, the resolutions fund the town’s portion of the joint federal and state projects scheduled for the North End, Midtown and South End coastlines.

Thanks to cost-sharing agreements between the town and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the FDEP will reimburse Palm Beach for the nearly $1 million approved in the resolutions, Director of Public Works Paul Brazil said in memos that accompanied the resolutions.

Residents can expect the projects in the North End and South End to begin in January, Town Engineer Patricia Strayer said during an April 18 event hosted by the Citizens’ Association of Palm Beach.

On the North End, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers will begin a large-scale dredging of the Palm Beach Inlet, Strayer said. Though a dredging project is currently underway, the upcoming project also will include onshore sand placement as far south as Angler Avenue.

On the South End, Strayer noted in January, the Phipps Ocean Park Beach Nourishment Project will replenish the dunes in the stretch of coastline from Phipps Ocean Park south to La Bonne Vie Condominiums.

Expected to begin near the end of 2025 is the Midtown Shore Protection Project, which will see the Army Corps replenishing sand lost to erosion during the 2022 hurricane season.

Diego Diaz Lasa is a journalist at the Palm Beach Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at dlasa@pbdailynews.com.

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