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Nonprofit seeks submerged breakwater for Condado; Army Corps review and cable, preservation, coral issues slow progress
Summary
Arrecife Condado Inc. described a three-section submerged breakwater and supporting studies funded by Paulson & Company, but the project is stalled pending Army Corps review and resolution of unprotected fiber-optic cables, an archaeological survey, and coral-species restrictions.
Frank Incerni, president of Arrecife Condado Inc., told a Senate committee that his nonprofit has a comanagement agreement with DRNA (signed in November 2016) and has proposed a submerged breakwater composed of three parallel sections to reduce dangerous rip currents at Condado beach.
Incerni said engineering and oceanographic studies (currents, sediment transport and storm modeling) were prepared by consultants including Tetratec Inc. and an oceanographic group led by Alfredo Torruellas and submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for evaluation. "Ese estudio ya prácticamente está…
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