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Council backs applicant’s plan for submerged breakwater off Ocean Drive, with condition banning navigational lighting
Summary
Council voted to support a privately led submerged breakwater project off Ocean Drive to reduce shoreline erosion and create habitat; approval was conditional on the project not installing nighttime lighting, and the applicant said Army Corps and GLO permits and environmental surveys are in hand.
The City Council on March 25 voted to record a statement of no objection for a proposed submerged, detached breakwater offshore of Ocean Drive and Doddridge Park, with an amendment that the project include no navigational lighting.
Palacios Marine & Agricultural Research (PMAR) and local partners proposed a roughly 2,500‑foot submerged breakwater about 300 feet offshore to blunt wave energy, protect the Ocean Drive shoreline and provide hard substrate for oyster and marine life colonization. The applicant said the structure would be placed in shallow water and remain submerged at all tides;…
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