All Blog Posts Tagged 'beach' (65)

By Cheryl Blackerby



    Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive long-awaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around the state that the Corps considered for emergency assistance in response to Hurricane Sandy and Tropical Storm Debby.

After the Corps’ damage reports were completed, 12 projects were approved to receive the…

Highland Beach residents gathered to clean up the beach on April 8. Ben and Mayra Stern (above) were among the volunteers who spent several hours hours combing the beach, finding many plastic bottles and caps, broken flip-flops, plastic bags, balloons, plastic forks and knives, empty sunscreen bottles,…

The Delray Beach Historical Society and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County joined forces for a program celebrating the history of the Barefoot Mailman.

ABOVE: Arts Garage’s student band, Rogue Set, including keyboard…

Lights glow aboard the 355-foot-long dredge Texas as the full-moon rises over coastal Delray Beach on March 20.  Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

NOTE: The drege was towed…

Bulldozers give a sense of the width and depth of the renourishment project.

Photos by Michelle Quigley/ Special to The Coastal Star            …

A temporary lifeguard stand opened in March on Lantana Beach.

    “Town staff built the one on the dune,” said Lantana Town Manager Deborah Manzo. “We are hoping that the town will obtain approval from the state to put a (permanent) stand back on the beach, but we have to go through an…

LEFT: Jose Arimatcia, an employee of Pugh’s Pools and Spas, installed a pair of tile mosaic sea turtles at the Ocean Ridge Town Hall. The installation is a joint project between the Ocean Ridge Garden Club and Mayor Pugh.…

Situated among the trees and mountains along the scenic Hudson River, Kingston, New York seems far away from the salty blue waves of the Atlantic and South Florida.  Yet, just 100 miles inland from the World Trade Center, at the southern tip of Manhattan where New York meets the Atlantic, the Tidal Waterfront Flooding Task Force of the Kingston Conservation Advisory Council (CAC) has begun to plan a strategy to manage the inevitable effects of a rising…

By Margie Plunkett

    

Universal Beach Services Corp. nearly saw 30 years of cleaning the sands of Delray Beach come to an end in the undertow of a low bidder. Commissioners, however, finally awarded Universal the contract after it protested that the beach couldn’t possibly be cleaned for that low price.

    Universal of Delray Beach was the middle of three bidders for the beach cleaning contract, offering to do the job for $94,896 annually. Beach Raker was the…

Days of pounding waves during Hurricane Sandy left much of Delray Beach eroded. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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By Cheryl Blackerby

    

Despite extensive damage from Hurricane Sandy, Delray Beach’s beach restoration project, part of a routine 10-year renourishment plan, is still on track for February.

    The cost will be only a little more than the projected $9.2 million because of Sandy’s damage to the 1.9-mile stretch along the Municipal Beach, says Dan Bates, deputy director of Palm Beach County Environmental Resource Management.

    The city has received…

By Margie Plunkett

    

A Parking Management Advisory Board meeting to collect public comment on extending metered-parking hours at the beach was cancelled after Delray Beach city commissioners noted it wasn’t the board’s position to make policy.

    “Why the Parking Management Board is being involved with policy, I do not know. That’s our job,” said Vice Mayor Tom Carney. “I want to stop it now. If there’s going to be issues about what time we think should be on…

Robb Barron in a healthy dune, standing in the midst of cocoplum, sea oats and sea lavender. Photos by Cheryl Blackerby/The Coastal Star

By Cheryl Blackerby

    

Robb Barron carefully tucked a sea oat…

By Cheryl Blackerby

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, beach restoration and how to pay for it were at the top of the agenda for commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District.

“There’s going be a big grab for federal money with the issues in the Northeast,” said the district’s attorney, Art Koski, at the Nov. 19 meeting. “The city is looking for FEMA money. But I don’t think we have the strength politically.”

Boca Raton’s…

Several seawalls, pools and yards in Manalapan were seriously damaged by the constant pounding of the surf from Hurricane Sandy and seasonal high tides.  Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

More photos from…

By Tim O’Meilia



    Officials of south county coastal towns fear that signing on to a regional beach management plan now in the works would cost their taxpayers money without guaranteeing any new sand on eroding beaches.

    Several environmental groups think that the plan — designed to streamline obtaining permits and treat regions as a whole instead of individually — will short-circuit their attempts to challenge projects.

    The inlet-to-inlet plan…

By Tim O’Meilia



    It’s the old “good news/bad news” cliché.

    The good news is that the elusive environmental impact study for the perhaps illusory plan to save South Palm Beach’s eroding beach and maintain Lantana’s seawall is being revived.

    The bad news is that the project has been removed from the list of beach projects to be included in the new inlet-to-inlet beach management plan being written by state, county and municipal officials to guide…

By Margie Plunkett

    

A tsunami of visitors has boosted attendance at Delray Beach’s beach to record highs.

    The surging number of beach-goers grew by more than 200,000 last year alone, a “phenomenal” performance that brought the total to 1.7 million in 2011, according to Ocean Rescue Superintendent James Scala. Three quarters into fiscal year 2012, attendance has reached 1.4 million.

A count is done twice per day at lifeguard stands along the city…