The commission voted 5-0 to approve a $500,000 design study for all eight areas. The projects will depend on the 60% easement threshold.
Emergency Management Director Jim Giammanco on Tuesday presented county commissioners with an update on what the effort will cost, how long it will take and what it will look like. There will be short-term pain.
Giammanco showed the costs of restoration at eight locations, going south from Ponte Vedra Beach to Summer Haven, a total of 25 miles. The total cost is more than $62 million. Giammanco told the commission that access to the beaches is always the issue, and each approach creates its own problems. For projects that would rely on sand being trucked in, that could mean 50,000 truckloads coming down A1A. Dredging projects would mean large staging areas, piles of sand, drying pits, long pipelines and operation 24/7. The staging could make a section of the beach inaccessible for months.
Only one of the Ponte Vedra projects has a federal dredging permit. Giammanco pointed out that it takes up to five years to obtain a permit.
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