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County official outlines $75 million coastal renourishment plan, dredging to start this week
Summary
Volusia County Councilman Matt Reinhart told the Daytona Beach commission that dredging under an Army Corps of Engineers partnership will deliver roughly 900,000 cubic yards in the first phase and up to 2.2 million cubic yards in a follow-up; pipes are already staged and the county approved $7.5 million to truck sand to vulnerable shorelines.
Volusia County Councilman Matt Reinhart briefed the Daytona Beach City Commission on April 16 about a county‑led coastal renourishment effort funded with state and other dollars after storm damage. Reinhart said the county has roughly $75 million in funding for renourishment, with an initial dredging phase expected to yield about 900,000 cubic yards of beach‑compatible sand and a second, larger phase that could produce 1.7 to 2.2 million cubic yards for placement along the shoreline.
Reinhart said the work is a partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND). He described approvals obtained to pump beach‑compatible sand from Intracoastal‑waterway dredging onto shorelines that previously would have been disposed at depth offshore. To…
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